On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:46:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > In the other email I have suggested to add a knob with the configurable > > default. Would you be OK with that? > > No, I want to agree on whether we need that fallback code or not. I'm > not interested in merging code that you can't convince anybody else is > needed. I for one would welcome such a knob as Michal is proposing. I thought it was long ago agreed that the low limit was going to fallback when it couldn't be satisfied. But you seem implacably opposed to that as default, and I can well believe that Google is so accustomed to OOMing that it is more comfortable with OOMing as the default. Okay. But I would expect there to be many who want the attempt towards isolation that low limit offers, without a collapse to OOM at the first misjudgement. Hugh -- 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>