On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:58:03AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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>
I agree with this. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>