On Thu 11-04-19 09:47:31, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: [...] > > I would question whether we really need this at all? Relying on the exit > > speed sounds like a fundamental design problem of anything that relies > > on it. > > Relying on it is wrong, I agree. There are protections like allocation > throttling that we can fall back to stop memory depletion. However > having a way to free up resources that are not needed by a dying > process quickly would help to avoid throttling which hurts user > experience. I am not opposing speeding up the exit time in general. That is a good thing. Especially for a very large processes (e.g. a DB). But I do not really think we want to expose an API to control this specific aspect. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
