Re: [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at should_reclaim_retry().

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 07:55:11 EST


On Tue 31-07-18 20:30:08, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2018/07/31 20:15, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> I will send the patch to Andrew if the patch is ok.
> >>
> >> Andrew, can we send the "we used to have a sleeping point in the oom path but this has
> >> been removed recently" patch to linux.git ?
> >
> > This can really wait for the next merge window IMHO.
> >
>
> "mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer" in linux-next.git is reviving that sleeping point.
> Current "mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer" will not be sent to linux.git in the next
> merge window? I'm confused...

This has nothing to do with cgroup-aware OOM killer.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs