linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: unify reclaim retry limits with page allocator

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Message-ID: <20200520234956.GA892595@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 00:49:56 +0100
From:   Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: unify reclaim retry limits with page allocator

Hey Andrew,

Andrew Morton writes:
>Ah, my habit of working in reverse time order sometimes does this ;)
>
>I suggest that "mm, memcg: reclaim more aggressively before high
>allocator throttling" and this patch become a two-patch series?

Sure, they can do (sorry, I meant to add a comment mentioning the dependency, 
but forgot). I just didn't want to conflate discussion for both of them, since 
they are separate in nature :-)

I'll hold off on sending v2 until the discussion with Michal is finished.