On Tue 27-06-17 20:39:28, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I wonder why you prefer timeout based approach. Your patch will after all > > > set MMF_OOM_SKIP if operations between down_write() and up_write() took > > > more than one second. > > > > if we reach down_write then we have unmapped the address space in > > exit_mmap and oom reaper cannot do much more. > > So, by the time down_write() is called, majority of memory is already released, isn't it? In most cases yes. To be put it in other words. By the time exit_mmap takes down_write there is nothing more oom reaper could reclaim. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>