On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:45 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, big design choice here. 1) vmevent is a just notification. it can't > guarantee to prevent oom. or 2) to implement some trick (e.g. reserved > memory for vmevent processes, kernel activity blocking until finish > memory returing, etc) Yes, vmevent is only for notification and will not *guarantee* OOM prevention. It simply tries to provide hints early enough to the userspace to so that OOM can be avoided if possible. -- 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>