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Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, David Rientjes wrote:

> No, it means that it can allocate anywhere based on the zonelist ordering 
> and then can OOM a very small exclusive cpuset that would never have had 
> any memory pressure if it wasn't violated.

But the alternative is that the exiting process does not save its 
data.

What is this very small exclusive cpuset?