From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162134Ab2GLWn5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:43:57 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:59637 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162105Ab2GLWng (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:43:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:42:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@eggly.anvils To: Andrew Morton cc: Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Mel Gorman , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Ying Han , Greg Thelen , Johannes Weiner , Fengguang Wu Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm] memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirty pages In-Reply-To: <20120712141343.e1cb7776.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1340117404-30348-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> <20120619150014.1ebc108c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120620101119.GC5541@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20120712070501.GB21013@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20120712141343.e1cb7776.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LSU 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:05:01 +0200 > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > When we are back to the patch. Is it going into 3.5? I hope so and I > > think it is really worth stable as well. Andrew? > > What patch. "memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages"? Yes. > > I wasn't planning on 3.5, given the way it's been churning around. I don't know if you had been intending to send it in for 3.5 earlier; but I'm sorry if my late intervention on may_enter_fs has delayed it. > How > about we put it into 3.6 and tag it for a -stable backport, so it gets > a bit of a run in mainline before we inflict it upon -stable users? That sounds good enough to me, but does fall short of Michal's hope. Hugh From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx116.postini.com [74.125.245.116]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A53D6B005D for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:43:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so3586485ggm.14 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:42:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm] memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirty pages In-Reply-To: <20120712141343.e1cb7776.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1340117404-30348-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> <20120619150014.1ebc108c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120620101119.GC5541@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20120712070501.GB21013@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20120712141343.e1cb7776.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Mel Gorman , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Ying Han , Greg Thelen , Johannes Weiner , Fengguang Wu On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:05:01 +0200 > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > When we are back to the patch. Is it going into 3.5? I hope so and I > > think it is really worth stable as well. Andrew? > > What patch. "memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages"? Yes. > > I wasn't planning on 3.5, given the way it's been churning around. I don't know if you had been intending to send it in for 3.5 earlier; but I'm sorry if my late intervention on may_enter_fs has delayed it. > How > about we put it into 3.6 and tag it for a -stable backport, so it gets > a bit of a run in mainline before we inflict it upon -stable users? That sounds good enough to me, but does fall short of Michal's hope. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org