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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 09:38:32 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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        Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: introduce memory.min
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:44:14 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: ignore memory.min of abandoned memory cgroups
> 
> If a cgroup has no associated tasks, invoking the OOM killer
> won't help release any memory, so respecting the memory.min
> can lead to an infinite OOM loop or system stall.
> 
> Let's ignore memory.min of unpopulated cgroups.

Good point, this makes sense.

> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

> @@ -2549,8 +2549,11 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
>  				/*
>  				 * Hard protection.
>  				 * If there is no reclaimable memory, OOM.
> +				 * Abandoned cgroups are loosing protection,

                                                         losing