| Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:18:26 +1100 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v13 13/16] vmscan: take at least one pass with shrinkers |
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:05:54PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > From: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> > > In very low free kernel memory situations, it may be the case that we > have less objects to free than our initial batch size. If this is the > case, it is better to shrink those, and open space for the new workload > then to keep them and fail the new allocations. > > In particular, we are concerned with the direct reclaim case for memcg. > Although this same technique can be applied to other situations just as > well, we will start conservative and apply it for that case, which is > the one that matters the most.
This should be at the start of the series.
Cheers,
Dave.
-- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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