Re: [v5 2/4] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer

Aleksa Sarai
2017-08-15T12:20:18Z

On 08/15/2017 10:15 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Generally, oom_score_adj should have a meaning only on a cgroup level,
> so extending it to the system level doesn't sound as a good idea.

But wasn't the original purpose of oom_score (and oom_score_adj) to work
on a system level, aka "normal" OOM? Is there some peculiarity about
memcg OOM that I'm missing?

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Aleksa Sarai
Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH