Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 11-03-16 19:45:29, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > (Posting as a reply to this thread.) > > I really do not see how this is related to this thread. All allocating tasks are looping at /* * If we didn't make any progress and have a lot of * dirty + writeback pages then we should wait for * an IO to complete to slow down the reclaim and * prevent from pre mature OOM */ if (!did_some_progress && 2*(writeback + dirty) > reclaimable) { congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); return true; } in should_reclaim_retry(). should_reclaim_retry() was added by OOM detection rework, wan't it? -- 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>