> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > [ small note on that we really should kill __GFP_NOFAIL, its utter > > > deadlock potential ] > > > > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really > > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process. > > I think. > > Say _what_?! you think NOFAIL is a sane thing? insane obviously ;) but as far as my experience, some embedded system prefer to use NOFAIL. So, I don't like to make big hammer crash. NOFAIL killing need long year rather than you expected, I guess. > Pretty much everybody has > been agreeing for years that the thing should die. I'm not against this at all. but until it die, it should works correctly. -- 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>