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McKenney" To: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa , David Rientjes , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,oom: Bring OOM notifier callbacks to outside of OOM killer. Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1529493638-6389-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20180621073142.GA10465@dhcp22.suse.cz> <2d8c3056-1bc2-9a32-d745-ab328fd587a1@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> <20180626170345.GA3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180627072207.GB32348@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180627072207.GB32348@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18062714-0064-0000-0000-000003210FD3 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00009264; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000266; SDB=6.01053095; UDB=6.00539925; IPR=6.00831019; MB=3.00021880; MTD=3.00000008; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2018-06-27 14:29:21 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18062714-0065-0000-0000-000039BC19A0 Message-Id: <20180627143125.GW3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-06-27_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=755 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1806210000 definitions=main-1806270160 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 09:22:07AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 26-06-18 10:03:45, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > [...] > > 3. Something else? > > How hard it would be to use a different API than oom notifiers? E.g. a > shrinker which just kicks all the pending callbacks if the reclaim > priority reaches low values (e.g. 0)? Beats me. What is a shrinker? ;-) More seriously, could you please point me at an exemplary shrinker use case so I can see what is involved? Thanx, Paul