Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling

David Rientjes
2014-03-06T20:55:43Z

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:58:38PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > This patchset implements userspace out of memory handling.
> >
> > It is based on v3.14-rc5. Individual patches will apply cleanly or you
> > may pull the entire series from
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rientjes/linux.git mm/oom
> >
> > When the system or a memcg is oom, processes running on that system or
> > attached to that memcg cannot allocate memory. It is impossible for a
> > process to reliably handle the oom condition from userspace.
>
> ISTR the conclusion last time was nack on the whole approach. What
> changed between then and now? I can't detect any fundamental changes
> from the description.
>

This includes system oom handling alongside memcg oom handling. If you
have specific objections, please let us know, thanks!