8 Jun
2012
8 Jun
'12
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:45 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:
So, big design choice here. 1) vmevent is a just notification. it can't guarantee to prevent oom. or 2) to implement some trick (e.g. reserved memory for vmevent processes, kernel activity blocking until finish memory returing, etc)
Yes, vmevent is only for notification and will not *guarantee* OOM prevention. It simply tries to provide hints early enough to the userspace to so that OOM can be avoided if possible.