Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 5 authors, 2011-02-04

Re: [patch 3/3] memcg: never OOM when charging huge pages

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-31 23:57:12
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:03:55 +0100
Johannes Weiner [off-list ref] wrote:
Huge page coverage should obviously have less priority than the
continued execution of a process.

Never kill a process when charging it a huge page fails.  Instead,
give up after the first failed reclaim attempt and fall back to
regular pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu,com>

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