On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:04:18 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking. > > On 02.12.21 16:06, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar > > problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time. > > In Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for > > several minutes before stalling. In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small > > memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough > > memory overall. > > Just wondering: this patch afaics is now in -mm and Linux next for > nearly two weeks. Is that intentional? I had expected it to be mainlined > with the batch of patches Andrew mailed to Linus last week, but it > wasn't among them. I have it queued for 5.17-rc1. There is still time to squeeze it into 5.16, just, with a cc:stable. Alternatively we could merge it into 5.17-rc1 with a cc:stable, so it will trickle back with less risk to the 5.17 release. What do people think?
