Commit 7887a3da authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] oom: cpuset hint

cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap does not always indicate that killing a task will
not free any memory we for us.  For example, we may be asking for an
allocation from _anywhere_ in the machine, or the task in question may be
pinning memory that is outside its cpuset.  Fix this by just causing
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap to reduce the badness rather than disallow it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 4ff1ffb4
......@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime)
if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
points /= 4;
/*
* If p's nodes don't overlap ours, it may still help to kill p
* because p may have allocated or otherwise mapped memory on
* this node before. However it will be less likely.
*/
if (!cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap(p))
points /= 8;
/*
* Adjust the score by oomkilladj.
*/
......@@ -198,9 +206,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints)
continue;
if (p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
continue;
/* If p's nodes don't overlap ours, it won't help to kill p. */
if (!cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap(p))
continue;
/*
* This is in the process of releasing memory so wait for it
......
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