linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:51:29 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite

> This patchset is a rewrite of the out of memory killer to address several
> issues that have been raised recently.  The most notable change is a
> complete rewrite of the badness heuristic that determines which task is
> killed; the goal was to make it as simple and predictable as possible
> while still addressing issues that plague the VM.
> 
> This patchset is based on mmotm-2010-02-05-15-06 because of the following
> dependencies:

At first, I'm glad that you tackle this issue. unfortunatelly I'm very busy now.
but I'll make a time for reviewing this patches asap.




> 
> 	[patch 4/7] oom: badness heuristic rewrite:
> 		mm-count-swap-usage.patch
> 
> 	[patch 5/7] oom: replace sysctls with quick mode:
> 		sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-delcarations.patch
> 
> To apply to mainline, download 2.6.33-rc7 and apply
> 
> 	mm-clean-up-mm_counter.patch
> 	mm-avoid-false-sharing-of-mm_counter.patch
> 	mm-avoid-false_sharing-of-mm_counter-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> 	mm-count-swap-usage.patch
> 	mm-count-swap-usage-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> 	mm-introduce-dump_page-and-print-symbolic-flag-names.patch
> 	sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations.patch
> 	sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations-fix.patch
> 
> from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out.tar.gz first.
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   78 ++++---
>  Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt        |   51 ++---
>  fs/proc/base.c                     |   13 +-
>  include/linux/mempolicy.h          |   13 +-
>  include/linux/oom.h                |   18 +-
>  kernel/sysctl.c                    |   15 +-
>  mm/mempolicy.c                     |   39 +++
>  mm/oom_kill.c                      |  455 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  mm/page_alloc.c                    |    3 +
>  9 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 302 deletions(-)
> 
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