From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:19:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110825091920.GA22564@tiehlicka.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108241226550.31357@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed 24-08-11 12:31:26, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > When we are in the global OOM condition then you are right, we have a
> > higher chance to panic. I still find the patch an improvement because
> > encountering a frozen task and looping over it without any progress
> > (even though there are other tasks that could be killed) is more
> > probable than having no killable task at all.
> > On non-NUMA machines there is even not a big chance that somebody would
> > be able to thaw a task as the system is already on knees.
> >
>
> That's obviously false since we call oom_killer_disable() in
> freeze_processes() to disable the oom killer from ever being called in the
> first place, so this is something you need to resolve with Rafael before
> you cause more machines to panic.
I didn't mean suspend/resume path (that is protected by oom_killer_disabled)
so the patch doesn't make any change.
Other than that you may end up with all tasks frozen by freezer cgroup
(assuming that others, that are killable, would be already killed by
OOM). But in that case who can thaw those processes when we are already
in OOM? If there is no chance to move forward then panic is more
suitable than a livelock IMO.
OK, we might be in OOM on a nodemask (cpuset or mempol) on NUMA and an
allocation on a different nodemask might still succeed and so we can
thaw those processes. This should be addressed.
What if we panicked only if constraint == CONSTRAINT_NONE?
Or am I missing something?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 8:31 [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-23 9:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-23 13:46 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-23 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-24 10:19 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-24 19:31 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-25 9:19 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2011-08-25 15:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-25 16:47 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-25 21:14 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 7:09 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 9:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 11:01 ` Michal Hocko
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 8:56 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 9:14 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:32 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 15:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-26 18:28 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 1:03 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 18:30 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 10:28 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-26 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-27 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-27 7:03 ` [PATCH] lguest: move process freezing before pending signals check Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 8:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] oom: give bonus to frozen processes Michal Hocko
2011-09-26 9:02 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-26 9:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-26 9:54 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 21:03 ` [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-26 10:03 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 12:44 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 12:59 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-26 7:35 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 9:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-26 9:59 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-26 18:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-25 21:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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