Re: mm: 5.16 regression: reclaim_throttle leads to stall in near-OOM conditions

From: Alexey Avramov
Date: Sat Nov 27 2021 - 14:40:06 EST


> I think there might be an unwritten mm law now that someone is always
> unhappy with OOM behaviour :(

It's okay if someone isn't happy with the default values.

It is not okay if there is no way to get the desired behavior using
tunables. And the problem is quite solvable [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20101028191523.GA14972@xxxxxxxxxx/