On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process. > I think. > That's not what happens, __alloc_pages_high_priority() will loop forever for __GFP_NOFAIL, the oom killer is never recalled. -- 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>