Re: [PATCH v4] mm: Throttle allocators when failing reclaim over memory.high

2019-07-23 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 02:07:00PM -0400, Chris Down wrote: > We're trying to use memory.high to limit workloads, but have found that > containment can frequently fail completely and cause OOM situations > outside of the cgroup. This happens especially with swap space -- either > when none is

[PATCH v4] mm: Throttle allocators when failing reclaim over memory.high

2019-07-23 Thread Chris Down
We're trying to use memory.high to limit workloads, but have found that containment can frequently fail completely and cause OOM situations outside of the cgroup. This happens especially with swap space -- either when none is configured, or swap is full. These failures often also don't have enough