Re: [patch 3/3] memcg: never OOM when charging huge pages

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Jan 31 2011 - 17:52:21 EST


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Huge page coverage should obviously have less priority than the
> continued execution of a process.
>
> Never kill a process when charging it a huge page fails. ÂInstead,
> give up after the first failed reclaim attempt and fall back to
> regular pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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