> According to my traces this 43ms could drop to the average of 11ms and > worst case 25ms if throttle_direct_reclaim would return true when > fatal signal is pending but I would like to hear your opinion about > throttle_direct_reclaim logic. Digging some more into this I realize my last statement might be incorrect. Throttling in this situation might not help with the signal handling delay because of the logic in __alloc_pages_slowpath. I'll have to experiment with this first, please disregard that last statement for now. -- 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>