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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-09-25 23:31:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 08:48:49 -0700 |
| commit | af5b912435de32fbede08cee949429823ed49781 (patch) | |
| tree | ea1de1a800c6fc60537912d4dad35a3cf211c86e /mm/oom_kill.c | |
| parent | 4a3ede107e422a0c53d28024b0aa902ca22a8768 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] oom: swapoff tasks tweak
PF_SWAPOFF processes currently cause select_bad_process to return straight
away. Instead, give them high priority, so we will kill them first, however
we also first ensure no parallel OOM kills are happening at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 55a05f1ef76d..f1aba7e7b760 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime) } /* + * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first. + */ + if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF) + return ULONG_MAX; + + /* * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness. */ points = mm->total_vm; @@ -230,8 +236,6 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints) } if (p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE) continue; - if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF) - return p; points = badness(p, uptime.tv_sec); if (points > *ppoints || !chosen) { |