Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to startcompaction

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so
> that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If
> this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible
> that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an
> OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch
> addresses it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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