On Mon 16-05-16 09:17:11, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 05/13/2016 03:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 10-05-16 09:36:01, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > > > such as hugetlbfs allocations, and reduce some corner-case OOM's for non-costly > > > allocations. > > > > My testing has shown that even with the current implementation with > > deferring, skip hints and cached positions had (close to) 100% success > > rate even with close to OOM conditions. > > Hmm, I thought you at one point said that ignoring skip hints was a large > improvement, because the current resetting of them is just too fuzzy. Not in the hugetlb test. But you are right that skip hints resulted in really fuzzy behavior. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>