Re: [PATCH v1 00/14] mm: BPF OOM

[Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>]

Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM Roman Gushchin
> <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> wrote:
>>
>> This patchset adds an ability to customize the out of memory
>> handling using bpf.
>>
>> It focuses on two parts:
>> 1) OOM handling policy,
>> 2) PSI-based OOM invocation.
>>
>> The idea to use bpf for customizing the OOM handling is not new, but
>> unlike the previous proposal [1], which augmented the existing task
>> ranking policy, this one tries to be as generic as possible and
>> leverage the full power of the modern bpf.
>>
>> It provides a generic interface which is called before the existing OOM
>> killer code and allows implementing any policy, e.g. picking a victim
>> task or memory cgroup or potentially even releasing memory in other
>> ways, e.g. deleting tmpfs files (the last one might require some
>> additional but relatively simple changes).
>>
>> The past attempt to implement memory-cgroup aware policy [2] showed
>> that there are multiple opinions on what the best policy is.  As it's
>> highly workload-dependent and specific to a concrete way of organizing
>> workloads, the structure of the cgroup tree etc, a customizable
>> bpf-based implementation is preferable over a in-kernel implementation
>> with a dozen on sysctls.
>
> s/on/of ?

Fixed, thanks.