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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, anfei <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer: break from infinite loop
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:04:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003302358500.7072@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331153152.3004e41c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> "By hand" includes "automatically with daemon program", of course.
> 
> Hmm, in short, your opinion is "killing current is good for now" ?
> 
> I have no strong opinion, here. (Because I'll recommend all customers to
> disable oom kill if they don't want any task to be killed automatically.)
> 

I think there're a couple of options: either define threshold notifiers 
with memory.usage_in_bytes so userspace can proactively address low memory 
situations prior to oom, or use the oom notifier after setting 
echo 1 > /dev/cgroup/blah/memory.oom_control to address those issues 
in userspace as they happen.  If userspace wants to defer back to the 
kernel oom killer because it can't raise max_usage_in_bytes, then
echo 0 > /dev/cgroup/blah/memory.oom_control should take care of it 
instantly and I'd rather see a misconfigured memcg with tasks that are 
OOM_DISABLE but not memcg->oom_kill_disable to be starved of memory than 
panicking the entire system.

Those are good options for users having to deal with low memory 
situations, thanks for continuing to work on it!

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24 16:25 Anfei Zhou
2010-03-25  2:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-26 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-26 22:33   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-28 14:55     ` anfei
2010-03-28 16:28       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-28 21:21         ` David Rientjes
2010-03-29 11:21           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-29 20:49             ` [patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed David Rientjes
2010-03-30 15:46               ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-30 20:26                 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31 17:58                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 20:47                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01  8:35                       ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01  8:57                         ` [patch -mm] oom: hold tasklist_lock when dumping tasks David Rientjes
2010-04-01 14:27                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 19:16                             ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01 13:59                         ` [patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 19:12                           ` David Rientjes
2010-04-02 11:14                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 18:30                               ` [PATCH -mm 0/4] oom: linux has threads Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 18:31                                 ` [PATCH -mm 1/4] oom: select_bad_process: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 19:05                                   ` David Rientjes
2010-04-02 18:32                                 ` [PATCH -mm 2/4] oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-06 11:42                                   ` anfei
2010-04-06 12:18                                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-06 13:05                                       ` anfei
2010-04-06 13:38                                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 18:32                                 ` [PATCH -mm 3/4] oom: introduce find_lock_task_mm() to fix !mm false positives Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 18:33                                 ` [PATCH -mm 4/4] oom: oom_forkbomb_penalty: move thread_group_cputime() out of task_lock() Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 19:04                                   ` David Rientjes
2010-04-05 14:23                                 ` [PATCH -mm] oom: select_bad_process: never choose tasks with badness == 0 Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 19:02                               ` [patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed David Rientjes
2010-04-02 19:14                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 19:46                                   ` David Rientjes
2010-04-02 19:54                                     ` [patch -mm] oom: exclude tasks with badness score of 0 from being selected David Rientjes
2010-04-02 21:04                                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-02 21:22                                         ` [patch -mm v2] " David Rientjes
2010-04-02 20:55                                     ` [patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 21:07                     ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31 22:50                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 23:30                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 23:48                           ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01 14:39                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 18:58                               ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01  8:25                         ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01 15:26                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-08 21:08                             ` David Rientjes
2010-04-09 12:38                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-30 16:39               ` [PATCH] oom: fix the unsafe proc_oom_score()->badness() call Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-30 17:43                 ` [PATCH -mm] proc: don't take ->siglock for /proc/pid/oom_adj Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-30 20:30                   ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31  9:17                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 18:59                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 21:14                       ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31 23:00                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01  8:32                           ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01 15:37                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 19:04                               ` David Rientjes
2010-03-30 20:32                 ` [PATCH] oom: fix the unsafe proc_oom_score()->badness() call David Rientjes
2010-03-31  9:16                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 20:17                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01  7:41                       ` David Rientjes
2010-04-01 13:13                         ` [PATCH 0/1] oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score() Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 13:13                           ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-01 19:03                             ` David Rientjes
2010-03-29 14:06           ` [PATCH] oom killer: break from infinite loop anfei
2010-03-29 20:01             ` David Rientjes
2010-03-30 14:29               ` anfei
2010-03-30 20:29                 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31  0:57                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-31  6:07                     ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31  6:13                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-31  6:30                         ` Balbir Singh
2010-03-31  6:31                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-31  7:04                             ` David Rientjes [this message]
2010-03-31  6:32                           ` David Rientjes
2010-03-31  7:08                             ` [patch -mm] memcg: make oom killer a no-op when no killable task can be found David Rientjes
2010-03-31  7:08                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-31  8:04                               ` Balbir Singh
2010-03-31 10:38                                 ` David Rientjes
2010-04-04 23:28                               ` David Rientjes
2010-04-05 21:30                                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 22:40                                   ` David Rientjes
2010-04-05 22:49                                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 23:01                                       ` David Rientjes
2010-04-06 12:08                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 21:47                                           ` David Rientjes
2010-04-07  0:20                                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-07 13:29                                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-08 18:05                                                 ` David Rientjes
2010-04-21 19:17                                                   ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-21 22:04                                                     ` David Rientjes
2010-04-22  0:23                                                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22  8:34                                                         ` David Rientjes
2010-04-27 22:58                                                       ` [patch -mm] oom: reintroduce and deprecate oom_kill_allocating_task David Rientjes
2010-04-28  0:57                                                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22  7:23                                                     ` [patch -mm] memcg: make oom killer a no-op when no killable task can be found Nick Piggin
2010-04-22  7:25                                                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 10:09                                                         ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-22 10:27                                                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 21:11                                                             ` David Rientjes
2010-04-22 10:28                                                           ` David Rientjes
2010-04-22 15:39                                                             ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-22 21:09                                                               ` David Rientjes
2010-05-04 23:55                                                     ` David Rientjes
2010-04-08 17:36                                               ` David Rientjes
2010-04-02 10:17           ` [PATCH] oom killer: break from infinite loop Mel Gorman
2010-04-04 23:26             ` David Rientjes
2010-04-05 10:47               ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-06 22:40                 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-29 11:31         ` anfei
2010-03-29 11:46           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-29 12:09             ` anfei
2010-03-28  2:46 ` David Rientjes

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