On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Kyle Walker wrote: > I do like the idea of not stalling completely in an oom just because the > first attempt didn't go so well. Is there any possibility of simply having > our cake and eating it too? Specifically, omitting TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > tasks > as low-hanging fruit and allowing the oom to continue in the event that the > first attempt stalls? TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks should not be sleeping that long and they *should react* in a reasonable timeframe. There is an alternative API for those cases that cannot. Typically this is a write that is stalling. If we kill the process then its pointless to wait on the write to complete. See https://lwn.net/Articles/288056/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-task-killable/ -- 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>