> And accessing the emergency reserves means we are definitely no longer > A-OK, this is not comparable to the first direct reclaim invocation. > > We exhausted our options and we got really lucky. It should not be > considered the baseline and a user listening for "OOM conditions" > should be informed about this. Definitely concur - there are loading tuning cases where you want to drive the box to the point it starts whining and then scale back a touch. It's an API change in effect, and while I can believe there are good arguments for both any API change ought to be a new API for listening only to serious OOM cases. -- 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>