On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 09:48 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Johannes and Rik had some concerns that this could lead to premature > OOM kills. I agree with them that we need a better throttling > mechanism. Until now we didn't give the issue described above a high > priority because it usually required a really insane workload to > trigger. But it seems that the issue can be reproduced also without > having an insane number of competing threads [3].
My worries stand, but lets fix the real observed bug, and not worry too much about the theoretical bug for now. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>