Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] memcg: oom notifier and handling oom by user

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-03-08 16:24:14]:

> This 2 patches is for memcg's oom handling.
> 
> At first, memcg's oom doesn't mean "no more resource" but means "we hit limit."
> Then, daemons/user shells out of a memcg can work even if it's under oom.
> So, if we have notifier and some more features, we can do something moderate
> rather than killing at oom. 
> 
> This patch includes
> [1/2] oom notifier for memcg (using evetfd framework of cgroups.)
> [2/2] oom killer disalibing and hooks for waitq and wake-up.
> 
> When memcg's oom-killer is disabled, all tasks which request accountable memory
> will sleep in waitq. It will be waken up by user's action as
>  - enlarge limit. (memory or memsw)
>  - kill some tasks
>  - move some tasks (account migration is enabled.)
> 

Hmm... I've not seen the waitq and wake-up patches, but does that mean
user space will control resumtion of tasks?


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	Balbir

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