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From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Koutn=FD?= <mkoutny@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to proportional
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:48:43PM -0400, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> Note that this isn't new behavior.

Understood, there may be a difference between:
a) a cgroup where the protected reserve was detected (this changed),
b) a cgroup where the protected memory is reclaimed.

> "The number of times the cgroup's memory.low-protected memory was
> reclaimed in order to avoid OOM during high memory pressure."

Yes, this is what I meant (i.e. events for the case b) above).

Michal