Hello, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 06:12:18PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > But they have been failing indefinitely forever once you hit the hard > limit in the past. There was never an async reclaim provision there. > > I can definitely see that the unconstrained high limit breaching needs > to be fixed one way or another, I just don't quite understand why you > chose to go for new semantics. Is there a new or a specific usecase > you had in mind when you chose deferred reclaim over simply failing? Hmmm... so if we just fail, it breaks the assumptions that slab/slub is making and while they might not fail outright would behave in an undesirable way. It's just that we didn't notice that before with limit_on_bytes and at least on the v2 interface the distinction between high and max makes the problem easy to deal with from high enforcement. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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>