On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray
> > > zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to
> > > prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might abuse this
> > > interface to implement OOM k
On Tue 14-07-15 14:58:55, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray
> > zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to
> > prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray
> zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to
> prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might abuse this
> interface to implement OOM killer policies.
On Thu 09-07-15 14:07:37, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > So I am not
> > sure it belongs outside of the oom killer proper.
> >
>
> Umm it has nothing to do with oom killing, it quite obviously doesn't
> belong in the oom killer.
The naming of the API w
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Nack, the oom notify list has no place in the oom killer, it should be
> > called in the page allocator before calling out_of_memory().
>
> I cannot say I would like oom notifiers interface. Quite contrary, it is
> just a crude hack. It is living out
On Wed 08-07-15 16:37:49, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > From: Michal Hocko
> >
> > A github user rfjakob has reported the following issue via IRC.
> > Manually triggering the OOM killer does not work anymore in 4.0.5
> > This is what it looks like:
> >
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko
>
> A github user rfjakob has reported the following issue via IRC.
> Manually triggering the OOM killer does not work anymore in 4.0.5
> This is what it looks like:
> https://gist.github.com/rfjakob/346b7dc611fc3cdf4011
> Basicall
From: Michal Hocko
A github user rfjakob has reported the following issue via IRC.
Manually triggering the OOM killer does not work anymore in 4.0.5
This is what it looks like:
https://gist.github.com/rfjakob/346b7dc611fc3cdf4011
Basically, what happens is that the GPU driver frees some memor
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