On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Whether the OOM reaper will free some memory no longer matters. Instead, > whether the OOM reaper will let the OOM killer select next OOM victim matters. > > Are you aware that the OOM reaper will let the OOM killer select next OOM > victim (currently by clearing TIF_MEMDIE)? Clearing TIF_MEMDIE in 4.6 occurred > only when OOM reaping succeeded. But we are going to change the OOM reaper > always clear TIF_MEMDIE in 4.8 (or presumably change the OOM killer not to > depend on TIF_MEMDIE) so that the OOM reaper guarantees that the OOM killer > always selects next OOM victim. >
That's cute, I'll have to look into those patches.
