Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem

From	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem
Date	2016-05-18 09:20 +0200
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On Tue 17-05-16 15:21:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016 22:28:56 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Andrew, this is not in the mmotm tree now because I didn't feel really
> > confortable with the patch without Oleg seeing it. But it seems Oleg is
> > ok [1] with it so could you push it to Linus along with the rest of oom
> > pile please?
> 
> Reluctant.  The CONFIG_COMPACTION=n regression which Joonsoo identified
> is quite severe.  Before patch: 10000 forks succeed.  After patch: 500
> forks fail.  Ouch.
> 
> How can we merge such a thing?

That regression has been fixed by
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-17 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in  task_will_free_mem Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-18 00:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-18 09:20 +0200

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