Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Sun Apr 03 2016 - 19:49:04 EST


On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:14:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:03:50 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri 01-04-16 17:00:58, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > [...]
> > > [2] commit 5acbd3bfc93b ("mm, oom: rework oom detection")
> >
> > I didn't look a tht patch yet but wanted to note that this sha is most
> > probably from linux-next and won't be stable. Also this patch will most
> > likely see some changes in future so making changes on top which should
> > go in independetly will likely just complicate things.
>
> Yes, we'll need two patches please. One to fix 6b4f7799c6a5 ("mm:
> vmscan: invoke slab shrinkers from shrink_zone()") (which is in
> mainline) and a second to clean up -mm's "mm, oom: rework oom detection".

Andrew, Michal

Thanks. I just sent out it as separate patch.