Re: ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19]

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (22/08/09 18:11), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > > /me needs to confirm.
> > > 
> > > With that commit reverted, I see no more I/O errors, only oom-killer
> > > messages (which is OK IMO, provided I write 1G of urandom on a machine w/
> > > 800M of RAM):
> > 
> > Hmm... So handle allocation always succeeds in the slow path? (when we
> > try to allocate it second time)
> 
> Yeah I can see how handle re-allocation with direct reclaim can make it more
> successful, but in exchange it oom-kills some user-space process, I suppose.
> Is oom-kill really a good alternative though?

We likely will need to revert e7be8d1dd983 given that it has some
user visible changes. But, honestly, failing zram write vs oom-kill
a user-space is a tough choice.