linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: allow memory allocation from emergency reserves

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:01:10 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Rui Qi <qirui.001@...edance.com>
Cc: linmiaohe@...wei.com, nao.horiguchi@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: allow memory allocation from
 emergency reserves

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:23:42 +0800 Rui Qi <qirui.001@...edance.com> wrote:

> we hope that memory errors can be successfully handled quickly, using
> __GFP_MEMALLOC can help us improve the success rate of processing
> under memory pressure, because to_kill struct is freed very quickly,
> so using __GFP_MEMALLOC will not exacerbate memory pressure for a long time,
> and  more memory will be freed after killed task exiting, which will also
> reduce memory pressure.

Has this been observed to improve behavior in some situation?  In
other words, please fully describe the observed runtime effects of this
change.