From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com (mail-pb0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5607D6B0031 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:35:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id um1so2436817pbc.19 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pa0-x231.google.com (mail-pa0-x231.google.com [2607:f8b0:400e:c03::231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id if4si4375862pbc.16.2014.01.29.16.35.39 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id hz1so2434899pad.8 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:35:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:35:36 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch] mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage In-Reply-To: <20140129122813.59d32e5c5dad3efc2248bc60@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20140115234308.GB4407@cmpxchg.org> <20140116070709.GM6963@cmpxchg.org> <20140124040531.GF4407@cmpxchg.org> <20140129122813.59d32e5c5dad3efc2248bc60@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote: > This changelog has deteriorated :( We should provide sufficient info so > that people will be able to determine whether this patch will fix a > problem they or their customers are observing. And so that people who > maintain -stable and its derivatives can decide whether to backport it. > > I went back and stole some text from the v1 patch. Please review the > result. The changelog would be even better if it were to describe the > new behaviour under the problematic workloads. > The new changelog looks fine with the exception of the mention of sshd which typically sets itself to be disabled from oom killing altogether. > We don't think -stable needs this? > Nobody has reported it in over three years as causing an issue, probably because people typically have enough memory that oom kills don't come from a ton of small processes allocating memory that can't be reclaimed, there's usually at least one large process to kill. -- 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