Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2021-01-19

Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: prevent starvation when writing memory.high

From: Michal Koutný <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-13 17:26:33
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:30:11AM -0500, Johannes Weiner [off-list ref] wrote:
-		reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - high,
-							 GFP_KERNEL, true);
+		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - high,
+					     GFP_KERNEL, true);
Although I was also initially confused by throwing 'reclaimed' info
away, the patch makes sense to me given the reasoning.

It is
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>

As for the discussed unsuccessful retries, I'd keep it a separate change.

Regards,
Michal

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