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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@android.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
	Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:54:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127215407.GB12431@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090127154053.GQ504@balbir.in.ibm.com>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:10:53PM +0530, Balbir Singh (balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > Having some special application which will monitor /dev/mem_notify and
> > kill processes based on its own hueristics is a good idea, but when it
> > fails to do its work (or does not exist) system has to have ability to
> > make a progress and invoke a main oom-killer.
> 
> The last part is what we've discussed in the mini-summit. There should
> be OOM kill notification to user space and if that fails let the kernel
> invoke the OOM killer. The exact interface for notification is not
> interesting, one could use netlink if that works well.

Yes, that's exactly what I would like to see.
Btw, netlink will not be a good idea, since it requires additional (and
quite big) allocation. I believe just reading the char device (or maybe
having a syscall) is enough, but its up to the implementation.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21 11:08 [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-21 13:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-21 15:24   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-21 20:49     ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22  2:53       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-22  5:12         ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  5:12       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  8:43         ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22  9:23           ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  9:39             ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 10:10               ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22 10:18                 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22  9:50           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 10:00             ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 10:14               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 10:27                 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 13:21                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 20:28                     ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 21:06                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 21:35                         ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 22:04                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 22:28                             ` David Rientjes
2009-01-22 22:53                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-22 23:25                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-27 23:55                     ` Paul Menage
2009-01-23  9:45                   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-23 10:33                     ` David Rientjes
2009-01-23 14:56                       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-23 20:44                         ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 10:20                           ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-27 10:53                             ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 11:08                               ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-27 11:21                                 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 11:37                                   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-27 20:29                                     ` David Rientjes
2009-01-28  1:00                         ` Paul Menage
2009-01-29 15:48                           ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  3:28 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-22  5:13   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  5:27     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-22  6:11       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  5:39     ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-22  6:12       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-22  6:29         ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-22  6:42           ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-01-26 19:54 ` Balbir Singh
2009-01-26 19:56   ` Alan Cox
2009-01-27  7:02     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27  7:26       ` Balbir Singh
2009-01-27  7:39       ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27  7:44         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27  7:51           ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27  9:31             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-27  9:37               ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 13:40                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-27 20:37                   ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 21:51                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-27 10:40               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-27 13:45                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-27 15:40                   ` Balbir Singh
2009-01-27 21:54                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-01-27 20:41                   ` David Rientjes
2009-01-27 21:55                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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