On Tue 04-09-18 13:30:44, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Regarding other other workloads. AFAIR the problem was due to the > > wait_iff_congested in the direct reclaim. And I've been arguing that > > special casing __GFP_NORETRY is not a propoer way to handle that case. > > We have PF_LESS_THROTTLE to handle cases where the caller cannot be > > really throttled because it is a part of the congestion control. I dunno > > what happened in that regards since then though. > > -- > > Michal Hocko > > SUSE Labs > > So, could you take this patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10505523/ > and commit it to the kernel? > > You agreed with that patch, but you didn't commit it. Because I do not maintain any tree that Linus pulls from. You need to involve Andrew Morton to get this to the mm tree and then to Linus. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
