Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262273AbTINAzr (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:55:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262274AbTINAzq (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:55:46 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:7696 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262273AbTINAzp (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:55:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes From: Robert Love To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030913220401.GA17528@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <200309120219.h8C2JANc004514@penguin.co.intel.com> <20030913174825.GB7404@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <1063476152.24473.30.camel@localhost> <20030913220401.GA17528@hh.idb.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1063500950.24473.34.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-6) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:55:50 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 574 Lines: 18 On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 18:04, Helge Hafting wrote: > So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory > it might ever need. Not impossible. Right. I was just pointing it out. Preallocating isn't necessarily possible e.g. you need something dynamically, need to call back into user-space, etc. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/