Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751984Ab0FCEsP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 00:48:15 -0400 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:35399 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883Ab0FCEsO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 00:48:14 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: remove PF_EXITING check completely Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Oleg Nesterov , LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Nick Piggin In-Reply-To: References: <20100602155455.GB9622@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20100603120814.7242.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:48:09 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1534 Lines: 37 > On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > Today, I've thought to make some bandaid patches for this issue. but > > > yes, I've reached the same conclusion. > > > > > > If we think multithread and core dump situation, all fixes are just > > > bandaid. We can't remove deadlock chance completely. > > > > > > The deadlock is certenaly worst result, then, minor PF_EXITING optimization > > > doesn't have so much worth. > > > > Agreed! I was always wondering if it really helps in practice. > > > > Nack, this certainly does help in practice, it prevents needlessly killing > additional tasks when one is exiting and may free memory. It's much > better to defer killing something temporarily if an eligible task (i.e. > one that has a high probability of memory allocations on current's nodes > or contributing to its memcg) is exiting. > > We depend on this check specifically for our use of cpusets, so please > don't remove it. Your claim violate our development process. Oleg pointed this check doesn't only work well, but also can makes deadlock. So, We certinally need anything fix. then, I'll remove this check completely at 2.6.35 timeframe. But this doesn't mean we refuse you make better patch at all. I expect we can merge very soon if you make such patch. -- 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/