linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:21:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:

> > I don't understand what you're arguing for here.  Are you suggesting that
> > we should not prefer tasks that intersect the set of allowable nodes?
> > That makes no sense if the goal is to allow for future memory freeing.
> >
> 
> No. Actually I am just wondering, will it be possible to check whether a 
> particular task has memory allocated or mmaped from this node to avoid killing 
> an innocent task.

That's certainly idealistic, but cannot be done in an inexpensive way that 
would scale with the large systems that clients of cpusets typically use.
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