Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: protect the memory in cgroup from being oom killed

Michal Hocko
2022-12-01T12:45:01Z

On Thu 01-12-22 10:52:35, 程垲涛 Chengkaitao Cheng wrote:
> At 2022-12-01 16:49:27, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >On Thu 01-12-22 04:52:27, 程垲涛 Chengkaitao Cheng wrote:
> >> At 2022-12-01 00:27:54, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >> >On Wed 30-11-22 15:46:19, 程垲涛 Chengkaitao Cheng wrote:
> >> >> On 2022-11-30 21:15:06, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >> >> > On Wed 30-11-22 15:01:58, chengkaitao wrote:
> >> >> > > From: chengkaitao <pilgrimtao@gmail.com>
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > We created a new interface <memory.oom.protect> for memory, If there is
> >> >> > > the OOM killer under parent memory cgroup, and the memory usage of a
> >> >> > > child cgroup is within its effective oom.protect boundary, the cgroup's
> >> >> > > tasks won't be OOM killed unless there is no unprotected tasks in other
> >> >> > > children cgroups. It draws on the logic of <memory.min/low> in the
> >> >> > > inheritance relationship.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Could you be more specific about usecases?
> >> >
> >> >This is a very important question to answer.
> >>
> >> usecases 1: users say that they want to protect an important process
> >> with high memory consumption from being killed by the oom in case
> >> of docker container failure, so as to retain more critical on-site
> >> information or a self recovery mechanism. At this time, they suggest
> >> setting the score_adj of this process to -1000, but I don't agree with
> >> it, because the docker container is not important to other docker
> >> containers of the same physical machine. If score_adj of the process
> >> is set to -1000, the probability of oom in other container processes will
> >> increase.
> >>
> >> usecases 2: There are many business processes and agent processes
> >> mixed together on a physical machine, and they need to be classified
> >> and protected. However, some agents are the parents of business
> >> processes, and some business processes are the parents of agent
> >> processes, It will be troublesome to set different score_adj for them.
> >> Business processes and agents cannot determine which level their
> >> score_adj should be at, If we create another agent to set all processes's
> >> score_adj, we have to cycle through all the processes on the physical
> >> machine regularly, which looks stupid.
> >
> >I do agree that oom_score_adj is far from ideal tool for these usecases.
> >But I also agree with Roman that these could be addressed by an oom
> >killer implementation in the userspace which can have much better
> >tailored policies. OOM protection limits would require tuning and also
> >regular revisions (e.g. memory consumption by any workload might change
> >with different kernel versions) to provide what you are looking for.
>
> There is a misunderstanding, oom.protect does not replace the user's
> tailed policies, Its purpose is to make it easier and more efficient for
> users to customize policies, or try to avoid users completely abandoning
> the oom score to formulate new policies.

Then you should focus on explaining on how this makes those policies and
easier and moe efficient. I do not see it.

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> >Why cannot you simply discount the protection from all processes
> >equally? I do not follow why the task_usage has to play any role in
> >that.
>
> If all processes are protected equally, the oom protection of cgroup is
> meaningless. For example, if there are more processes in the cgroup,
> the cgroup can protect more mems, it is unfair to cgroups with fewer
> processes. So we need to keep the total amount of memory that all
> processes in the cgroup need to protect consistent with the value of
> eoom.protect.

You are mixing two different concepts together I am afraid. The per
memcg protection should protect the cgroup (i.e. all processes in that
cgroup) while you want it to be also process aware. This results in a
very unclear runtime behavior when a process from a more protected memcg
is selected based on its individual memory usage.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs