> And accessing the emergency reserves means we are definitely no longer > A-OK, this is not comparable to the first direct reclaim invocation. > > We exhausted our options and we got really lucky. It should not be > considered the baseline and a user listening for "OOM conditions" > should be informed about this.
Definitely concur - there are loading tuning cases where you want to drive the box to the point it starts whining and then scale back a touch. It's an API change in effect, and while I can believe there are good arguments for both any API change ought to be a new API for listening only to serious OOM cases. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
