[PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Young
When memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning will probably cause oom killing. Even if alloc_page with GFP_NORETRY itself does not directly trigger oom it will make memory becoming low then memory alloc of other processes will trigger oom killing. It is not desired behaviour. Here disable oom

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Minchan Kim
Please resend this with [2/2] to linux-mm. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: When memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning will probably cause oom killing. Even if alloc_page with GFP_NORETRY itself does not directly trigger oom it will make

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Young
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: Please resend this with [2/2] to linux-mm. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: When memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning will probably cause oom killing. Even if

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Minchan Kim
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: Please resend this with [2/2] to linux-mm. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: When memory pressure

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Young
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: Please resend this with [2/2] to linux-mm. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Young
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Minchan Kim

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Minchan Kim

Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: disable oom killer when fill balloon

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Young
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Dave Young hidave.darks...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Minchan Kim minchan@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Dave Young