> From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 17:58 > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:16:02AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > Hello, Dexuan! > > A couple of issues has been revealed recently, here are fixes > (hashes are from the next tree): > > 5f4b04528b5f mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages > 5a03b371ad6a mm: handle no memcg case in memcg_kmem_charge() > properly > > These two patches should be added to the serie. Thanks for the new info! > Re stable backporting, I'd really wait for some time. Memory reclaim is a > quite complex and fragile area, so even if patches are correct by themselves, > they can easily cause a regression by revealing some other issues (as it was > with the inode reclaim case). I totally agree. I'm now just wondering if there is any temporary workaround, even if that means we have to run the kernel with some features disabled or with a suboptimal performance? Thanks! --Dexuan
