linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/12] oom: remove PF

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Date:	Fri,  4 Jun 2010 19:54:42 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] oom: remove PF_EXITING check completely

> > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> > Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> 
> Nacked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> 
> You have no real world experience in using the oom killer for memory 
> containment and don't understand how critical it is to protect other 
> vital system tasks that are needlessly killed as the result of this patch.

Heh, You really think "you have no experience" takes meaningful argument?
If I'd say "You have no real world experience in using linux", you are
satisfied?

Anyway, I don't care such "Please don't fix the bug" claim. the bug is
bug. not something else.



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