linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:58:03 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 09:48 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Johannes and Rik had some concerns that this could lead to premature
> OOM kills. I agree with them that we need a better throttling
> mechanism. Until now we didn't give the issue described above a high
> priority because it usually required a really insane workload to
> trigger. But it seems that the issue can be reproduced also without
> having an insane number of competing threads [3].

My worries stand, but lets fix the real observed bug, and not worry
too much about the theoretical bug for now.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>