Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:49:23 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling |
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:58:38PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > This patchset implements userspace out of memory handling. > > It is based on v3.14-rc5. Individual patches will apply cleanly or you > may pull the entire series from > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rientjes/linux.git mm/oom > > When the system or a memcg is oom, processes running on that system or > attached to that memcg cannot allocate memory. It is impossible for a > process to reliably handle the oom condition from userspace.
ISTR the conclusion last time was nack on the whole approach. What changed between then and now? I can't detect any fundamental changes from the description.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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