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

Tejun Heo
2014-03-06T20:49:23Z

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.

Thanks.

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tejun