From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
david@fromorbit.com, mgorman@suse.de, riel@redhat.com,
fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 v2] mm: Allow small allocations to fail
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:46:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150316074607.GA24885@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201503152206.AGJ22930.HOStFFFQLVMOOJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Sun 15-03-15 22:06:54, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > this. I understand that the wording of the changelog might be confusing,
> > though.
> >
> > It says: "This implementation counts only those retries which involved
> > OOM killer because we do not want to be too eager to fail the request."
> >
> > Would it be more clear if I changed that to?
> > "This implemetnation counts only those retries when the system is
> > considered OOM because all previous reclaim attempts have resulted
> > in no progress because we do not want to be too eager to fail the
> > request."
> >
> > We definitely _want_ to fail GFP_NOFS allocations.
>
> I see. The updated changelog is much more clear.
Patch with the updated changelog (no other changes)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-16 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 20:54 [PATCH 0/2] Move away from non-failing small allocations Michal Hocko
2015-03-11 20:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Allow small allocations to fail Michal Hocko
2015-03-12 12:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-12 13:12 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-15 5:43 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-15 12:13 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-15 13:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-16 7:46 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-03-16 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] " Johannes Weiner
2015-03-17 10:25 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-17 13:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-17 14:17 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-17 17:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-17 19:41 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 9:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-18 12:04 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 12:36 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-18 11:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-17 11:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-17 13:15 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 11:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-18 12:23 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-19 11:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-11 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmotm: Enable small allocation " Michal Hocko
2015-03-11 22:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] Move away from non-failing small allocations Sasha Levin
2015-03-16 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-17 9:07 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-17 14:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-04-02 11:53 ` Tetsuo Handa
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