Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to proportional memory.low reclaim

Michal Koutný
2021-08-24T13:01:56Z

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:48:43PM -0400, Johannes Weiner <hannes-druUgvl0LCNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Note that this isn't new behavior.

Understood, there may be a difference between:
a) a cgroup where the protected reserve was detected (this changed),
b) a cgroup where the protected memory is reclaimed.

> "The number of times the cgroup's memory.low-protected memory was
> reclaimed in order to avoid OOM during high memory pressure."

Yes, this is what I meant (i.e. events for the case b) above).

Michal