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Date:      Sun, 03 Dec 2023 08:04:51 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
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Subject:   [Bug 275436] tmpfs does not honor memory limits on writes
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--- Comment #6 from Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> ---
VM (alomst) always ensures that there are several free pages.  More, it even
typically manages to free several pages in reasonable time.

This is why our OOM organized in current way:
- global OOM triggers when VM cannot get a free page despite existence of t=
he
  page shortage, in all domains, for some time.  It is typically triggered
  when kernel allocates too much unmanaged pages (not tmpfs case).
- per-process OOM triggers when page fault handler needs a page and cannot
  allocate it after several cycles of allocation attempts.

I added the second (per-process) OOM since global OOM (similar to your patc=
h)
was not able to handle typical situation with usermode sitting on too many
dirty pages.

Now that I formulated this, I think that for tmpfs a reasonable approach wo=
uld
be something in line of per-process OOM: try the allocation, and return ENO=
SPC
if it failed, with some criteria for restart.  You might look at vm/vm_faul=
t.c
vm_fault_allocate_oom().

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