Re: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority

[Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Kame.

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:21 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:48:26 -0300
> "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> oom-killer: give the dying task rt priority (v3)
>>
>> Give the dying task RT priority so that it can be scheduled quickly and die,
>> freeing needed memory.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> index 84bbba2..2b0204f 100644
>> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
>> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> @@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints)
>>   */
>>  static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose)
>>  {
>> +     struct sched_param param;
>> +
>>       if (is_global_init(p)) {
>>               WARN_ON(1);
>>               printk(KERN_WARNING "tried to kill init!\n");
>> @@ -288,6 +290,8 @@ static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose)
>>        * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
>>        */
>>       p->time_slice = HZ;
>> +     param.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-10;
>> +     sched_setscheduler(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
>>       set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
>>
>
> BTW, how about the other threads which share mm_struct ?

Could you elaborate your intention? :)

>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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