Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933309AbXHFSmz (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:42:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759142AbXHFSmo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:42:44 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:48746 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbXHFSmn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:42:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Daniel Phillips cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Lee Schermerhorn , Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: <200708061121.50351.phillips@phunq.net> Message-ID: References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <20070806103658.107883000@chello.nl> <200708061121.50351.phillips@phunq.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 12 On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up with a > reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an improvement. The system would have died? Why? The application in the cpuset that ran out of memory should have died not the system. - 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/