On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:46:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > In the other email I have suggested to add a knob with the configurable > > default. Would you be OK with that? > > No, I want to agree on whether we need that fallback code or not. I'm > not interested in merging code that you can't convince anybody else is > needed.
I for one would welcome such a knob as Michal is proposing. I thought it was long ago agreed that the low limit was going to fallback when it couldn't be satisfied. But you seem implacably opposed to that as default, and I can well believe that Google is so accustomed to OOMing that it is more comfortable with OOMing as the default. Okay. But I would expect there to be many who want the attempt towards isolation that low limit offers, without a collapse to OOM at the first misjudgement. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
