| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:36:16 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction |
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On 12/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so > that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If > this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible > that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an > OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch > addresses it. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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