Re: User space out of memory approach

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 05:54:37 EST


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:44:53AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is
> > the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground.
> > Your solution does not solve
> > - invocation madness
> > - reentrancy protection
> > - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't
> > neccecary at all
>
> Thomas, you're obviously right, it's not even worth discussing this.
> The 6 patches I posted (and my version is the only one that includes all
> the outstanding fixes) have to be applied. Than we can think about the
> rest.
>
> Rik's two patches (writeback-highmem and writeback_nr_scanned) should be
> applied too since they're obviously right too (and they're completely
> orthogonal with our 6). Rik's 2/2 looked more like an hack and it
> shouldn't be applied.

This patchsets should be in -mm by now? :)
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