Re: [PATCH] fs, mm: account filp and names caches to kmemcg

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 16:50:57 EST


> Why is OOM-disabling a thing? Why isn't this simply a "kill everything
> else before you kill me"? It's crashing the kernel in trying to
> protect a userspace application. How is that not insane?

In parallel to other discussion, I think we should definitely move
from "completely oom-disabled" semantics to something similar to "kill
me last" semantics. Is there any objection to this idea?