On Sat 14-01-17 21:42:48, David Rientjes wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > The OOM killer livelock was the motivation for this patch. With that > > ruled out, what's the point of this patch? Try a bit less hard to move > > charges during task migration? > > > > Most important part is to fail ->can_attach() instead of oom killing > processes when attaching a process to a memcg hierarchy. But we are not invoking the oom killer from this path even without __GFP_NORETRY. Or am I missing your point? -- 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
