On Tue 26-09-17 20:37:37, Tim Hockin wrote: [...] > I feel like David has offered examples here, and many of us at Google > have offered examples as long ago as 2013 (if I recall) of cases where > the proposed heuristic is EXACTLY WRONG. I do not think we have discussed anything resembling the current approach. And I would really appreciate some more examples where decisions based on leaf nodes would be EXACTLY WRONG. > We need OOM behavior to kill in a deterministic order configured by > policy. And nobody is objecting to this usecase. I think we can build a priority policy on top of leaf-based decision as well. The main point we are trying to sort out here is a reasonable semantic that would work for most workloads. Sibling based selection will simply not work on those that have to use deeper hierarchies for organizational purposes. I haven't heard a counter argument for that example yet. -- 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>