From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f72.google.com (mail-wm0-f72.google.com [74.125.82.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB326B0033 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:50:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f72.google.com with SMTP id b189so3777764wmd.9 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id r11sor723066wmf.85.2017.10.27.13.50.49 for (Google Transport Security); Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:50:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171025164402.GA11582@cmpxchg.org> References: <20171024160637.GB32340@cmpxchg.org> <20171024162213.n6jrpz3t5pldkgxy@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171024172330.GA3973@cmpxchg.org> <20171024175558.uxqtxwhjgu6ceadk@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171024185854.GA6154@cmpxchg.org> <20171024201522.3z2fjnfywgx2egqx@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171025071522.xyw4lsvdv4xsbhbo@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171025131151.GA8210@cmpxchg.org> <20171025141221.xm4cqp2z6nunr6vy@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171025164402.GA11582@cmpxchg.org> From: Shakeel Butt Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:50:47 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs, mm: account filp and names caches to kmemcg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko , Greg Thelen , Alexander Viro , Vladimir Davydov , Andrew Morton , Linux MM , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML > Why is OOM-disabling a thing? Why isn't this simply a "kill everything > else before you kill me"? It's crashing the kernel in trying to > protect a userspace application. How is that not insane? In parallel to other discussion, I think we should definitely move from "completely oom-disabled" semantics to something similar to "kill me last" semantics. Is there any objection to this idea? -- 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