Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations

[Dave Peterson]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 16:02, Paul Jackson wrote:
> I'm still a little surprised that this per-mm 'oom_notify' bit
> was needed to implement what I thought was a single, global
> system wide oom killer serializer.

I think the title "mm: serialize OOM kill operations" was probably a
poor choice of words.  It sounds like all I want to do is make sure
tasks enter the OOM killer one-at-a-time.  My goal is actually to
prevent further OOM kill operations until the OOM kill in progress
has caused the victim task to free its address space (i.e. clean out
its mm_struct).  That way we don't shoot more processes than necessary
to resolve the OOM condition.
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