On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:52:27 -0300 "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > | If an explanation as "acceralating all thread's priority in a process seems overkill" > | is given in changelog or comment, it's ok to me. > > If my understanding of badness() is right, I wouldn't be ashamed of saying > that it seems to be _a bit_ overkill. But I may be wrong in my > interpretation. > > While re-reading the code I noticed that in select_bad_process() we can > eventually bump on an already dying task, case in which we just wait for > the task to die and avoid killing other tasks. Maybe we could boost the > priority of the dying task here too. > yes, nice catch. Thanks, -Kame -- 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>