Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:21:26 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller |
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > I don't understand what you're arguing for here. Are you suggesting that > > we should not prefer tasks that intersect the set of allowable nodes? > > That makes no sense if the goal is to allow for future memory freeing. > > > > No. Actually I am just wondering, will it be possible to check whether a > particular task has memory allocated or mmaped from this node to avoid killing > an innocent task.
That's certainly idealistic, but cannot be done in an inexpensive way that would scale with the large systems that clients of cpusets typically use.
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