Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 May 2021 12:09:40 +0100 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during reclaim/compaction retry attempt |
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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:34:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2021 21:17:43 +0100 Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> wrote: > > > It does not make sense to retry compaction when a fatal signal is > > pending. > > Well, it might make sense. Presumably it is beneficial to other tasks.
Apart from Vlastimil's point, if I hit ^C, I want the task to die, as soon as possible. I don't want it to do things which are beneficial to other tasks, I want my shell prompt back, not spending seconds trying to compact memory. Some other task can do that if _it_ needs large contiguous chunks.
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