On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:34:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2021 21:17:43 +0100 Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It does not make sense to retry compaction when a fatal signal is > > pending. > > Well, it might make sense. Presumably it is beneficial to other tasks. Apart from Vlastimil's point, if I hit ^C, I want the task to die, as soon as possible. I don't want it to do things which are beneficial to other tasks, I want my shell prompt back, not spending seconds trying to compact memory. Some other task can do that if _it_ needs large contiguous chunks.
