Re: [patch] mm: memcontrol: switch soft limit default back to infinity

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Mon Dec 29 2014 - 03:43:26 EST


On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 01:47:48PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters") accidentally
> switched the soft limit default from infinity to zero, which turns all
> memcgs with even a single page into soft limit excessors and engages
> soft limit reclaim on all of them during global memory pressure. This
> makes global reclaim generally more aggressive, but also inverts the
> meaning of existing soft limit configurations where unset soft limits
> are usually more generous than set ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Overlooked that :-/

Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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