On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Christopher Lameter wrote: > > I am not sure this is how things evolved actually. This is way before > > my time so my git log interpretation might be imprecise. We do have > > oom_badness heuristic since out_of_memory has been introduced and > > oom_kill_allocating_task has been introduced much later because of large > > boxes with zillions of tasks (SGI I suspect) which took too long to > > select a victim so David has added this heuristic. > > Nope. The logic was required for tasks that run out of memory when the > restriction on the allocation did not allow the use of all of memory. > cpuset restrictions and memory policy restrictions where the prime > considerations at the time. > > It has *nothing* to do with zillions of tasks. Its amusing that the SGI > ghost is still haunting the discussion here. The company died a couple of > years ago finally (ok somehow HP has an "SGI" brand now I believe). But > there are multiple companies that have large NUMA configurations and they > all have configurations where they want to restrict allocations of a > process to subset of system memory. This is even more important now that > we get new forms of memory (NVDIMM, PCI-E device memory etc). You need to > figure out what to do with allocations that fail because the *allowed* > memory pools are empty. > We already had CONSTRAINT_CPUSET at the time, this was requested by Paul and acked by him in https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118306851418425. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
