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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, 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, 6 Mar 2014, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:58:38PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > > This patchset implements userspace out of memory handling. > > > > It is based on v3.14-rc5. Individual patches will apply cleanly or you > > may pull the entire series from > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rientjes/linux.git mm/oom > > > > When the system or a memcg is oom, processes running on that system or > > attached to that memcg cannot allocate memory. It is impossible for a > > process to reliably handle the oom condition from userspace. > > ISTR the conclusion last time was nack on the whole approach. What > changed between then and now? I can't detect any fundamental changes > from the description. > This includes system oom handling alongside memcg oom handling. If you have specific objections, please let us know, thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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