Re: mm: 5.16 regression: reclaim_throttle leads to stall in near-OOM conditions

From: Alexey Avramov
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 05:55:24 EST

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> it does eventually get killed OOM

However, a full minute freeze can be a great evil in many situations -
during such a freeze, the system is completely unresponsive.

So my next question is: How reasonable is the value MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES?
Is it also get "out of thin air"?

And would it make sense to have buttons to adjust the timeouts?

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