[PATCH 1/2 v2] mm: Allow small allocations to fail

[Michal Hocko]

On Sun 15-03-15 22:06:54, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > this. I understand that the wording of the changelog might be confusing,
> > though.
> > 
> > It says: "This implementation counts only those retries which involved
> > OOM killer because we do not want to be too eager to fail the request."
> > 
> > Would it be more clear if I changed that to?
> > "This implemetnation counts only those retries when the system is
> > considered OOM because all previous reclaim attempts have resulted
> > in no progress because we do not want to be too eager to fail the
> > request."
> > 
> > We definitely _want_ to fail GFP_NOFS allocations.
> 
> I see. The updated changelog is much more clear.

Patch with the updated changelog (no other changes)
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