Hello, Johannes. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Why can't we simply fail NOWAIT allocations when the high limit is > breached? We do the same for the max limit. Because that can lead to continued systematic failures of NOWAIT allocations. For that to work, we'll have to add async reclaimaing. > As I see it, NOWAIT allocations are speculative attempts on available > memory. We should be able to just fail them and have somebody that is > allowed to reclaim try again, just like with the max limit. Yes, but the assumption is that even back-to-back NOWAIT allocations won't continue to fail indefinitely. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
