From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:23:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160527172304.GD2531@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bbc7b70dae6ace0b8751e0140e878acfdfffd74.1464358556.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:17:42PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When selecting an oom victim, we use the same heuristic for both memory
> cgroup and global oom. The only difference is the scope of tasks to
> select the victim from. So we could just export an iterator over all
> memcg tasks and keep all oom related logic in oom_kill.c, but instead we
> duplicate pieces of it in memcontrol.c reusing some initially private
> functions of oom_kill.c in order to not duplicate all of it. That looks
> ugly and error prone, because any modification of select_bad_process
> should also be propagated to mem_cgroup_out_of_memory.
>
> Let's rework this as follows: keep all oom heuristic related code
> private to oom_kill.c and make oom_kill.c use exported memcg functions
> when it's really necessary (like in case of iterating over memcg tasks).
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cool work!
I'll do a full review after the rebase on top of Michal's stuff.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-27 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-27 14:17 [PATCH 1/2] mm: oom: add memcg to oom_control Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-27 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-27 14:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 14:45 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-27 14:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 17:23 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2016-06-08 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-08 11:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-08 11:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-08 14:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-08 13:52 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-06-08 14:46 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: oom: add memcg to oom_control Michal Hocko
2016-05-27 17:20 ` Johannes Weiner
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