Thread (87 messages) 87 messages, 6 authors, 2014-01-21

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, memcg: avoid oom notification when current needs access to memory reserves

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2014-01-15 21:23:16
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
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It was acked-by Michal.
Michal acked it before we had most of the discussions and now he is
proposing an alternate version of yours, a patch that you are even
discussing with him concurrently in another thread.  To claim he is
still backing your patch because of that initial ack is disingenuous.
His patch depends on mine, Johannes.
Does it? Are we talking about the same patch here?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/12/174
I'm happy with either patch, I suggested doing the mem_cgroup_oom_notify() 
at the last minute only when actually killing a process because of your 
concern that the oom killer would still defer.  That was addressing your 
concern as an extension of my patch which avoids unconditionally giving 
current access to memory reserves without scanning or deferring anything.  
I would be happy with either approach, and so I don't see why removing my 
patch from -mm which yours is based on would be needed.
Which depends on yours only to revert your part. I plan to repost it but
that still doesn't mean it will get merged because Johannes still has
some argumnets against. I would like to start the discussion again
because now we are so deep in circles that it is hard to come up with a
reasonable outcome. It is still hard to e.g. agree on an actual fix
for a real problem https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/12/129.
This is concerning because it's merged in -mm without being tested by Eric 
and is marked for stable while violating the stable kernel rules criteria.

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