On Fri 27-11-15 10:38:07, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > I am not sure whether we found any conclusion here. Are there any strong > arguments against patch 1? I think that should be relatively > non-controversial. What about patch 2? I think it should be ok as well > as we are basically removing the flag which has never had any effect. > > I would like to proceed with this further by going through remaining users. > Most of them depend on a variable size and I am not familiar with the > code so I will talk to maintainer to find out reasoning behind using the > flag. Once we have reasonable number of them I would like to go on and > rename the flag to __GFP_BEST_AFFORD and make it independent on the ble, __GFP_BEST_EFFORT I meant of course... > order. It would still trigger OOM killer where applicable but wouldn't > retry endlessly. > > Does this sound like a reasonable plan? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>