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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 10:21:48 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	rientjes@...gle.com
CC:	caiqian@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hughd@...gle.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	minchan.kim@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] oom: oom-killer don't use proportion of system-ram
 internally

(2011/05/24 7:48), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
>
>> I already suggested an alternative patch to CAI Qian to greatly increase
>> the granularity of the oom score from a range of 0-1000 to 0-10000 to
>> differentiate between tasks within 0.01% of available memory (16MB on CAI
>> Qian's 16GB system).  I'll propose this officially in a separate email.
>>
>
> This is an alternative patch as earlier proposed with suggested
> improvements from Minchan.  CAI, would it be possible to test this out on
> your usecase?
>
> I'm indifferent to the actual scale of OOM_SCORE_MAX_FACTOR; it could be
> 10 as proposed in this patch or even increased higher for higher
> resolution.

I did explain why your proposal is unacceptable.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1378837#1378837

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