Re: [oom]: [0/4] fix OOM deadlock running OAST

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 10:26:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:16:37AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Removing the check on v2.4 based kernels will trigger the OOM killer
> too soon for a lot of cases, I'm pretty sure.

Other 2.4 oom_kill.c issues aside, since this is a relatively blatant
deadlock. What form would you like a fix to take, if you care to have
a fix for this at all?


-- wli
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