linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:46:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	minchan.kim@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> Yes, I think you're right. But "breaking current behaviro of our servers!"
> arguments kills all proposal to this area and this oom-killer or vmscan is
> a feature should be tested by real users.

Nobody has said we should discount lowmem rss when dealing with a GFP_DMA 
allocation, it simply wasn't possible until the lowmem rss counters were 
introduced in -mm.  It would prevent the needless killing of innocent 
tasks which would not allow the page allocation to succeed, so it's a good 
feature to have.  It doesn't need to be configurable at all, we just need 
to find a way to introduce it into the heuristic without mangling oom_adj.
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