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

[Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:50:48PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> * MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> [2010-05-28 23:06:23]:
> 
> > > 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. 
> >
> 
> We have a routine to help figure out if the task belongs to the memory
> cgroup that cause the OOM. The OOM entry from memory cgroup is
> different from a regular one. 

I meant it. 
My english is poor. "out of" isn't proper. 

> 
> -- 
> 	Three Cheers,
> 	Balbir

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim