Re: [BUG] inotify_add_watch/inotify_rm_watch loops trigger oom

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On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One thought would be to add an "emergency mode" to SRCU similar to that
> already in RCU.  Something to the effect that if the current list of
> callbacks is going to take more than a second to drain at the configured
> per-jiffy rate, just process them without waiting.
>
> Would that help in this case, or am I missing something about the
> reproducer?

Let's see if we can avoid srcu callbacks entirely as per Jeff, that
would be the best option.

                Linus
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