Re: [PATCH v2 -mm] memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirtypages

[Hugh Dickins]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:05:01 +0200
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> 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
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