On Fri 04-03-16 16:15:58, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 04-03-16 14:23:27, Joonsoo Kim wrote: [...] > > Unconditional 16 looping and then OOM kill really doesn't make any > > sense, because it doesn't mean that we already do our best. > > 16 is not really that important. We can change that if that doesn't > sounds sufficient. But please note that each reclaim round means > that we have scanned all eligible LRUs to find and reclaim something
this should read "scanned potentially all eligible LRUs..." > and asked direct compaction to prepare a high order page. > This sounds like "do our best" to me. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs