linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to proportional memory.low reclaim

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Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:44:11 +0000
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...com>
To:     "hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     "chris@...isdown.name" <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Leon Yang <lnyng@...com>, "mhocko@...e.com" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to proportional
 memory.low reclaim

On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 14:05 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> To fix this, hook proportional reclaim into the same retry logic we
> have in place for when cgroups are skipped entirely. This way if
> reclaim fails and some cgroups were scanned with dimished pressure,
> we'll try another full-force cycle before giving up and OOMing.

Good catch.

> Reported-by: Leon Yang <lnyng@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

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