linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling

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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:23:59 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling

On Thu 06-03-14 16:33:24, Tejun Heo wrote:
> A bit of addition.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:23:57PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > This patchset provides a solution to a real-world problem that is not 
> > solved with any other patchset.  I expect it to be reviewed as any other 
> > patchset, it's not an "RFC" from my perspective: it's a proposal for 
> > inclusion.  Don't worry, Andrew is not going to apply anything 
> > accidentally.
> 
> I can't force it down your throat but I feel somewhat uneasy about how
> this was posted without any reference to the previous discussion as if
> this were just now being proposed especially as the said discussion
> wasn't particularly favorable to this approach.  Prefixing RFC or at
> least pointing back to the original discussion seems like the
> courteous thing to do.

Completely agreed! My first impression when I saw the patchset yesterday
was that it was posted for sake of future LSF discussion. I was also
curious about the missing RFC. Posting it as a proposal for inclusion is
premature before any conclusion is reached.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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