On Mon 10-07-17 12:58:59, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:58:03AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 09:48 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > Johannes and Rik had some concerns that this could lead to premature > > > OOM kills. I agree with them that we need a better throttling > > > mechanism. Until now we didn't give the issue described above a high > > > priority because it usually required a really insane workload to > > > trigger. But it seems that the issue can be reproduced also without > > > having an insane number of competing threads [3]. > > > > My worries stand, but lets fix the real observed bug, and not worry > > too much about the theoretical bug for now. > > > > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I agree with this. > > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks to both of you. Just to make it clear. I really do want to address the throttling problem longterm properly. I do not have any great ideas to be honest. I am busy with other things so it might be quite some time before I come up with something. -- 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>
