On Thu 2009-05-07 13:25:06, David Rientjes wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > OK, let's try with __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL first. If there's too much disagreement, > > I'll use the freezer-based approach instead. > > > > Third time I'm going to suggest this, and I'd like a response on why it's > not possible instead of being ignored. > > All of your tasks are in D state other than kthreads, right? That means > they won't be in the oom killer (thus no zones are oom locked), so you can > easily do this Well, OOM killer may be running on behalf of some kthread at that point....? Quite unlikely, but possible AFAICT. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
