Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > Isnt this also a constrained allocation? We could expand the check to also 
> > > catch these types of restrictions and fail.
> > 
> > No, it uses the full fallback zone list of the target node, not a custom
> > one. Would be hard to detect without a flag.

Right but it specifies in its flags that not all system memory can satisfy 
this particular memory request. That fact may be detected by the 
out_of_memory() function. We could do something special there instead of 
OOMing.



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