Re: [PATCH] oom: consider multi-threaded tasks in task_will_free_mem

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 17 May 2016 22:28:56 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew, this is not in the mmotm tree now because I didn't feel really
> confortable with the patch without Oleg seeing it. But it seems Oleg is
> ok [1] with it so could you push it to Linus along with the rest of oom
> pile please?

Reluctant.  The CONFIG_COMPACTION=n regression which Joonsoo identified
is quite severe.  Before patch: 10000 forks succeed.  After patch: 500
forks fail.  Ouch.

How can we merge such a thing?