Re: OOM detection regressions since 4.7

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Mon Aug 22 2016 - 07:02:07 EST


On 2016.08.22 at 12:56 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 22-08-16 12:16:14, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2016.08.22 at 11:32 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160731051121.GB307@x4
> >
> > For the report [1] above:
> >
> > markus@x4 linux % cat .config | grep CONFIG_COMPACTION
> > # CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set
>
> Hmm, without compaction and a heavy fragmentation then I am afraid we
> cannot really do much. What is the reason to disable compaction in the
> first place?

I don't recall. Must have been some issue in the past. I will re-enable
the option.

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Markus