linux-kernel - Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:14:44 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Roman Jarosz" <kedgedev@...il.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"A Rojas" <nqn1976list@...il.com>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	"A. Boulan" <arnaud.boulan@...ertysurf.fr>, michael@...nelt.co.at,
	jcnengel@...glemail.com, rientjes@...gle.com, earny@...4u.de,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"Eric Anholt" <eric@...olt.net>,
	"Chris Wilson" <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: Re: OOM-Killer kills too much with 2.6.32.2

> > -	mapping_set_gfp_mask(obj->filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mapping,
> > -			     GFP_HIGHUSER |
> > -			     __GFP_COLD |
> > -			     __GFP_FS |
> > -			     __GFP_RECLAIMABLE |
> > -			     __GFP_NORETRY |
> > -			     __GFP_NOWARN |
> > -			     __GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
> > -
> >  	kref_init(&obj->refcount);
> >  	kref_init(&obj->handlecount);
> >  	obj->size = size;
> 
> I've applied this patch and I'm testing it right now.
> Btw. what this patch will do from user(my) point of view?

OOM Killer disappear :)




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