linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:40:17 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"riel@...hat.com" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"elladan@...imo.com" <elladan@...imo.com>,
	"npiggin@...e.de" <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"minchan.kim@...il.com" <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:

> No, it has 600MB free pages after an OOM - which only means that the
> OOM killer did a good job ;-)

The system usually gets into a pretty much dead state after a couple of OOMs
of so.   There's also the little fact that prior to that commit, the OOMs
don't happen at all as far as I can tell.

I don't know for certain that the OOMs don't happen on the commits that have
come up good.  Sadly, all I can say is that after running N commits, I haven't
seen an OOM.

David
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