On Mon 23-05-16 14:06:20, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > I have completely missed a potential interaction with > __GFP_NOFAIL. We even do not seem to trigger the memcg OOM killer for > these requests to sort the situation out. Which is intentional. a0d8b00a3381 ("mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations") -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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