Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: try oom if reclaim is unable to make forward progress

[Aaron Tomlin]

On Fri 2021-03-26 16:36 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> We should be focusing on the compaction retry logic and see whether we
> can have some "run away" scenarios there.

Fair enough.

> Seeing so many retries without compaction bailing out sounds like a bug
> in that retry logic.

Agreed - I will continue to look into this.



Kind regards,

-- 
Aaron Tomlin