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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: simplify task's refcount handling
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:07:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190724080726.GA5584@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6aebef5-60f8-a61c-0564-5bb4595e8e2c@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

On Wed 24-07-19 16:37:35, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/07/24 15:41, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > That being said, I do not think this patch gives any improvement.
> > 
> 
> This patch avoids RCU during select_bad_process().

It just shifts where the RCU is taken. Do you have any numbers to show
that this is an improvement? Basically the only potentially expensive
thing down the oom_evaluate_task that I can see is the task_lock but I
am not aware of a single report that this would be a contributor for RCU
stalls. I can be proven wrong but 

> This patch allows
> possibility of doing reschedulable things there; e.g. directly reaping
> only a portion of OOM victim's memory rather than wasting CPU resource
> by spinning until MMF_OOM_SKIP is set by the OOM reaper.

We have been through direct oom reaping before and I haven't changed my
possition there. It is just too tricky to be worth it.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-24  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-24  3:54 Tetsuo Handa
2019-07-24  6:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-24  7:37   ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-07-24  8:07     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-07-26  3:17       ` Tetsuo Handa

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