Re: User space out of memory approach

Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11T08:58:07Z

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:44:53AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is
> the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground.
> Your solution does not solve
> - invocation madness
> - reentrancy protection
> - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't
> neccecary at all

Thomas, you're obviously right, it's not even worth discussing this.
The 6 patches I posted (and my version is the only one that includes all
the outstanding fixes) have to be applied. Than we can think about the
rest.

Rik's two patches (writeback-highmem and writeback_nr_scanned) should be
applied too since they're obviously right too (and they're completely
orthogonal with our 6). Rik's 2/2 looked more like an hack and it
shouldn't be applied.