From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch -mm v2 2/3] mm, memcg: replace cgroup aware oom killer mount option with tunable Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:00:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20180125160016.30e019e546125bb13b5b6b4f@linux-foundation.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Rientjes Cc: Roman Gushchin , Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov , Johannes Weiner , Tetsuo Handa , Tejun Heo , kernel-team@fb.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:53:48 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes wrote: > Now that each mem cgroup on the system has a memory.oom_policy tunable to > specify oom kill selection behavior, remove the needless "groupoom" mount > option that requires (1) the entire system to be forced, perhaps > unnecessarily, perhaps unexpectedly, into a single oom policy that > differs from the traditional per process selection, and (2) a remount to > change. > > Instead of enabling the cgroup aware oom killer with the "groupoom" mount > option, set the mem cgroup subtree's memory.oom_policy to "cgroup". Can we retain the groupoom mount option and use its setting to set the initial value of every memory.oom_policy? That way the mount option remains somewhat useful and we're back-compatible? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org