On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Currently oom_killer_disabled is only used in __alloc_pages_slowpath, >> For page fault oom case it is not considered. One use case is >> virtio balloon driver, when memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning >> will cause oom killing due to such as page fault oom. > > Other mm guys already accepted but sorry I can't understand your point > since I am not familiar with virtio. > > Now oom_killer_disabled is used by only hibernation and hibernation > freezes processes so page fault shouldn't happen. > > Now are you using oom_killer_disabled in virtio? > Could you elaborate use case ? Sorry, I lost your [1/2] in my mail box. I will see it in marc linux-mm -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>