Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756889AbZAVFj6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:39:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbZAVFjs (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:39:48 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:30228 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752809AbZAVFjr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:39:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200901221043.13684.knikanth@suse.de> References: <200901211638.23101.knikanth@suse.de> <20090122122843.7e94878e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <200901221043.13684.knikanth@suse.de> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:39:45 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arve_Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= To: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Evgeniy Polyakov , Chris Snook , Alan Cox , Paul Menage , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > To use oom_adj effectively one should continuously monitor oom_score of all > the processes, which is a complex moving target and keep on adjusting the > oom_adj of many tasks which still cannot guarantee the order. This controller > is deterministic and hence easier to use. > Why not add an option to make oom_adj ensure strict ordering instead? -- Arve Hj?nnev?g -- 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/