On an overcommitted system which is running multiple workloads of varying priorities, it is preferred to trigger an oom-killer to kill a low priority workload than to let the high priority workload receiving ENOMEMs. On our memory overcommitted systems, we are seeing a lot of ENOMEMs instead of oom-kills because io_uring_setup callchain is using __GFP_NORETRY gfp flag which avoids the oom-killer. Let's remove it and allow the oom-killer to kill a lower priority job. Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220125051736.2981459-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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