From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6756B007E for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:39:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id p65so976020wmp.0 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com (mail-wm0-f65.google.com. [74.125.82.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 199si96295wmv.97.2016.03.04.09.39.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:39:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id p65so116317wmp.1 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:39:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 18:39:16 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Message-ID: <20160304173916.GA24204@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20160302021954.GA22355@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <20160302095056.GB26701@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160302140611.GI26686@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160303092634.GB26202@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160303152514.GG26202@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160304052327.GA13022@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <20160304151558.GF31257@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160304151558.GF31257@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , Tetsuo Handa , Hillf Danton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Linux Memory Management List , LKML , Sergey Senozhatsky On Fri 04-03-16 16:15:58, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 04-03-16 14:23:27, Joonsoo Kim wrote: [...] > > Unconditional 16 looping and then OOM kill really doesn't make any > > sense, because it doesn't mean that we already do our best. > > 16 is not really that important. We can change that if that doesn't > sounds sufficient. But please note that each reclaim round means > that we have scanned all eligible LRUs to find and reclaim something this should read "scanned potentially all eligible LRUs..." > and asked direct compaction to prepare a high order page. > This sounds like "do our best" to me. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org