Re: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:11 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> And that can reduce the runtime of the thread holding a writelock on 
> mm->mmap_sem, making the exit actually take longer than without the patch 
> if its priority is significantly higher, especially on smaller machines. 

/me smells an inversion... on -rt we solved those ;-)
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