On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:05:54PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > In very low free kernel memory situations, it may be the case that we > have less objects to free than our initial batch size. If this is the > case, it is better to shrink those, and open space for the new workload > then to keep them and fail the new allocations. > > In particular, we are concerned with the direct reclaim case for memcg. > Although this same technique can be applied to other situations just as > well, we will start conservative and apply it for that case, which is > the one that matters the most. This should be at the start of the series. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
