linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 -mm] memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirty pages

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1207121539150.27721@eggly.anvils>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujtisu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm] memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirty
 pages

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:05:01 +0200
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
> > When we are back to the patch. Is it going into 3.5? I hope so and I
> > think it is really worth stable as well. Andrew?
> 
> What patch.   "memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages"?

Yes.

> 
> I wasn't planning on 3.5, given the way it's been churning around.

I don't know if you had been intending to send it in for 3.5 earlier;
but I'm sorry if my late intervention on may_enter_fs has delayed it.

> How
> about we put it into 3.6 and tag it for a -stable backport, so it gets
> a bit of a run in mainline before we inflict it upon -stable users?

That sounds good enough to me, but does fall short of Michal's hope.

Hugh
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