linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mmotm] memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages

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Message-Id: <20120716140846.bc5cefb2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:08:46 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.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 mmotm] memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty
 pages

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:

> Incremental on top of what I believe you presently have in mmotm:
> better folded in on top of Michal's original and the may_enter_fs "fix".

I think I'll keep it as a separate patch, actually.  This is a pretty
tricky and error-prone area and all those details in the changelog may
prove useful next time this code explodes.
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