Hello, On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:45:21AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > So, this shouldn't be an issue. This may get affected by direct > > reclaim frenzy but it's only a small piece of the whole symptom and we > > gotta fix that at the source. > > OK, so there shouldn't be any issue with the patch, right?
idk, it'll make the code path more susceptible to direct reclaim starvations, so it's difficult to claim that there won't be *any* problems; however, given the extent of the starvation problem, this likely won't add any noticeable issues. Thanks. -- tejun
