[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: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 7d05684..4f815b0 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -129,6 +129,14 @@
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.
*/
if (p->oomkilladj) {
@@ -198,9 +206,6 @@
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
