On 04/02, David Rientjes wrote: > > An oom_badness() score of 0 means "never kill" according to > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, so explicitly exclude it from being > selected for kill. These tasks have either detached their p->mm or are > set to OOM_DISABLE. Agreed, but > @@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints, > continue; > > points = oom_badness(p, totalpages); > + if (!points) > + continue; > if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) { then "|| !chosen" can be killed. with this patch !chosen <=> !*ppoints, and since points > 0 if (points > *ppoints) { is enough. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>