From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E576E6F.1030909@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108260209050.14732@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
>>> A much better solution would be to lower the badness score that the oom
>>> killer uses for PF_FROZEN threads so that they aren't considered a
>>> priority for kill unless there's nothing else left to kill.
>>
>> Anyway, oom killer shouldn't loop endlessly if it see TIF_MEMDIE on frozen
>> task,
>> it must go on and try to kill somebody else. We cannot wait for thawing this
>> task.
>>
>
> Did you read my suggestion? I quoted it above again for you. The badness
> heuristic would only select those tasks to kill as a last resort in the
> hopes they will eventually be thawed and may exit. Panicking the entire
> machine for what could be isolated by a cgroup is insanity.
Maybe just fix this "panic" logic? OOM killer should panic only on global memory shortage.
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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E576E6F.1030909@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108260209050.14732@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
>>> A much better solution would be to lower the badness score that the oom
>>> killer uses for PF_FROZEN threads so that they aren't considered a
>>> priority for kill unless there's nothing else left to kill.
>>
>> Anyway, oom killer shouldn't loop endlessly if it see TIF_MEMDIE on frozen
>> task,
>> it must go on and try to kill somebody else. We cannot wait for thawing this
>> task.
>>
>
> Did you read my suggestion? I quoted it above again for you. The badness
> heuristic would only select those tasks to kill as a last resort in the
> hopes they will eventually be thawed and may exit. Panicking the entire
> machine for what could be isolated by a cgroup is insanity.
Maybe just fix this "panic" logic? OOM killer should panic only on global memory shortage.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 8:31 [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-23 8:31 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-23 9:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-23 9:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-23 13:46 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-23 13:46 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-23 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-23 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-24 10:19 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-24 10:19 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-24 19:31 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-24 19:31 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-25 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-25 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-25 15:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-25 15:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-25 16:47 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-25 16:47 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-25 21:14 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-25 21:14 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 7:09 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 7:09 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 9:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 11:01 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 11:01 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 18:13 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 18:13 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 8:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] oom: do not live lock on " Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 8:56 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 8:56 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 9:14 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:14 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:32 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:32 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 15:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-26 15:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-26 18:28 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 18:28 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 1:03 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 1:03 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 18:30 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 18:30 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 10:28 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-26 10:28 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-26 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-27 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-27 7:03 ` [PATCH] lguest: move process freezing before pending signals check Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 7:03 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 8:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] oom: give bonus to frozen processes Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:02 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 9:02 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 9:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:54 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:54 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 21:03 ` [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-26 21:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-26 10:03 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 10:03 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 12:44 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 12:44 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 12:59 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 12:59 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 7:35 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 7:35 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 9:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:59 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov [this message]
2011-08-26 9:59 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 18:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 18:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-25 21:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-25 21:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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