Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: prevent starvation when writing memory.high

From: Michal Koutný
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 12:26:33 EST


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:30:11AM -0500, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - high,
> - GFP_KERNEL, true);
> + try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - high,
> + GFP_KERNEL, true);
Although I was also initially confused by throwing 'reclaimed' info
away, the patch makes sense to me given the reasoning.

It is
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>

As for the discussed unsuccessful retries, I'd keep it a separate change.

Regards,
Michal

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