Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

[David Rientjes]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Nack to this. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be time constrained/bounded
> state. Using it as an oom victim criteria makes the victim selection
> less deterministic which is undesirable. As much as I am aware of
> potential issues with the current implementation, making the behavior
> more random doesn't really help.
> 

Agreed, we can't avoid killing a process simply because it is in D state, 
this isn't an indication that the process will not be able to exit and in 
the worst case could panic the system if all other processes cannot be oom 
killed.
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