Re: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority

["Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:06:23PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
| On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:53:05AM -0300, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
| > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:59:02PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
...
| > | As far as my observation, RT-function always have some syscall. because pure
| > | calculation doesn't need deterministic guarantee. But _if_ you are really
| > | using such priority design. I'm ok maximum NonRT priority instead maximum
| > | RT priority too.
| > 
| > I confess I failed to distinguish memcg OOM and system OOM and used "in
| > case of OOM kill the selected task the faster you can" as the guideline.
| > If the exit code path is short that shouldn't be a problem.
| > 
| > Maybe the right way to go would be giving the dying task the biggest
| > priority inside that memcg to be sure that it will be the next process from
| > that memcg to be scheduled. Would that be reasonable?
| 
| Hmm. I can't understand your point. 
| What do you mean failing distinguish memcg and system OOM?
| 
| We already have been distinguish it by mem_cgroup_out_of_memory.
| (but we have to enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR). 
| So task selected in select_bad_process is one out of memcg's tasks when 
| memcg have a memory pressure. 

The approach of giving the highest priority to the dying task makes sense
in a system wide OOM situation. I though that would also be good for the
memcg OOM case.

After Balbir Singh's comment, I understand that in a memcg OOM the dying
task should have a priority just above the priority of the main task of
that memcg, in order to avoid interfering in the rest of the system.

That is the point where I failed to distinguish between memcg and system OOM.

Should I pursue that new idea of looking for the right priority inside the
memcg or is it overkill? I really don't have a clear view of the impact of
a memcg OOM on system performance - don't know if it is better to solve the
issue sooner (highest RT priority) or leave it to be solved later (highest
prio on the memcg). I have the impression the general case points to the
simpler solution.

Luis
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