From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7335C6B0031 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:55:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id ma3so3156989pbc.13 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pb0-x232.google.com (mail-pb0-x232.google.com [2607:f8b0:400e:c01::232]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id sh5si6037191pbc.260.2014.03.06.12.55.45 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id md12so3140614pbc.37 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:55:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling In-Reply-To: <20140306204923.GF14033@htj.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <20140306204923.GF14033@htj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Mel Gorman , Oleg Nesterov , Rik van Riel , Jianguo Wu , Tim Hockin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:58:38PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > > This patchset implements userspace out of memory handling. > > > > It is based on v3.14-rc5. Individual patches will apply cleanly or you > > may pull the entire series from > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rientjes/linux.git mm/oom > > > > When the system or a memcg is oom, processes running on that system or > > attached to that memcg cannot allocate memory. It is impossible for a > > process to reliably handle the oom condition from userspace. > > ISTR the conclusion last time was nack on the whole approach. What > changed between then and now? I can't detect any fundamental changes > from the description. > This includes system oom handling alongside memcg oom handling. If you have specific objections, please let us know, thanks! -- 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