Re: [patch 04/11] mm, memcg: add tunable for oom reserves

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:59:19PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> Userspace needs a way to define the amount of memory reserves that
> processes handling oom conditions may utilize.  This patch adds a per-
> memcg oom reserve field and file, memory.oom_reserve_in_bytes, to
> manipulate its value.
> 
> If currently utilized memory reserves are attempted to be reduced by
> writing a smaller value to memory.oom_reserve_in_bytes, it will fail with
> -EBUSY until some memory is uncharged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

We're completely unsure this is the way we wanna be headed and this is
a huge commitment.  For now at least,

Nacked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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tejun
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