Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:04:19 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Scott Long <scottl@netflix.com>, Kevin Bowling <kbowling@llnw.com>, Drew Gallatin <gallatin@netflix.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: small patch for pageout. Comments? Message-ID: <20171130210419.GH2272@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20171130203911.GC30262@mcvoy.com> References: <20171130173424.GA811@mcvoy.com> <CANCZdfqL9ZsKTfFi%2BvsCTh3yaNjtwaYYY3fvivdbNybBnujawg@mail.gmail.com> <20171130184923.GA30262@mcvoy.com> <20171130193213.GF2272@kib.kiev.ua> <20171130203047.GB30262@mcvoy.com> <20171130203725.GG2272@kib.kiev.ua> <20171130203911.GC30262@mcvoy.com>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:39:11PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > Perhaps I misunderstood, I thought your patch was instead of the pageout > patch. Is that not the case? The patch aims to fix the situation where OOM triggers too late. It might have some effect when pagedaemon cannot cope with the speed of page allocations, but it would do it in rather rude manner of causing OOM if some process cannot get a free page for long time because page daemon does not provide enough free pages and other allocators steal the limited supply.
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