On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Whether the OOM reaper will free some memory no longer matters. Instead, > whether the OOM reaper will let the OOM killer select next OOM victim matters. > > Are you aware that the OOM reaper will let the OOM killer select next OOM > victim (currently by clearing TIF_MEMDIE)? Clearing TIF_MEMDIE in 4.6 occurred > only when OOM reaping succeeded. But we are going to change the OOM reaper > always clear TIF_MEMDIE in 4.8 (or presumably change the OOM killer not to > depend on TIF_MEMDIE) so that the OOM reaper guarantees that the OOM killer > always selects next OOM victim. > That's cute, I'll have to look into those patches. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>