Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Switch to memalloc_flags_do() for vmalloc allocations

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 02-09-24 17:01:12, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > I really do not see why GFP_NOFAIL should be any special in this
> > specific case.
> 
> I believe there's no way to stop it from looping, even if you
> implement a sophisticated user space OOM killer. ;)

User space OOM killer should be helping to replenish a free memory and
we have some heuristics to help NOFAIL users out with some portion of
memory reserves already IIRC. So we do already give them some special
treatment in the page allocator path. Not so much in the reclaim path.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs