Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:20:05 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore |
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* Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed 30-03-16 15:32:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention > > > (basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap > > > tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted > > > by SIGKILL. > > > > Aside from the one niggle (as per the other email) they look good to me > > and I would take them through the tip/locking tree. > > Thanks for the review! I understand that tip/locking would be the most > appropriate place [...]
Yes.
> [...] but I am wondering whether this causes some issues with the follow up > patches which use this new API and which I expect to go via Andrew's tree.
So AFAIK Andrew's tree is based on top of linux-next, so once it goes into tip:locking/core, -mm can pick it up as well 1-2 days later.
Please send the changes in isolation, for merge into the locking tree.
Thanks,
Ingo
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