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

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

From: Minchan Kim <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-31 22:52:17
Also in: linux-mm

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:03 PM, 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>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <redacted>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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