From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-f41.google.com (mail-qg0-f41.google.com [209.85.192.41]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08C76B0031 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:49:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id i50so4447450qgf.0 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qc0-x231.google.com (mail-qc0-x231.google.com [2607:f8b0:400d:c01::231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h93si3777104qgh.104.2014.03.06.12.49.27 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-qc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id w7so3577389qcr.22 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:49:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:49:23 -0500 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling Message-ID: <20140306204923.GF14033@htj.dyndns.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Mel Gorman , Oleg Nesterov , Rik van Riel , Jianguo Wu , Tim Hockin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org