Re: [patch -mmotm] mm: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Minchan Kim wrote:

> But this patch increases the probability of innocent task killing.
> Is GFP_NOFAIL's early bailout more important than killing of innocent task ?
> 

__GFP_NOFAIL's bailout is, by definition, a bug in the page allocator and 
this patch fixes it.
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