Michal Hocko wrote: > Sure we can be more intelligent and reset the counter if the > feedback from compaction is optimistic and we are making some > progress. This would be less hackish and the XXX comment points into > that direction. For now I would like this to catch most loads reasonably > and build better heuristics on top. I would like to do as much as > possible to close the obvious regressions but I guess we have to expect > there will be cases where the OOM fires and hasn't before and vice > versa. Aren't you forgetting that some people use panic_on_oom > 0 which means that premature OOM killer invocation is fatal for them? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>