linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm v2 2/3] mm, memcg: replace cgroup aware oom killer mount option with tunable

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:30:17 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        kernel-team@...com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm v2 2/3] mm, memcg: replace cgroup aware oom killer
 mount option with tunable

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 01:20:11PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From 361275a05ad7026b8f721f8aa756a4975a2c42b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:54:15 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] oom, memcg: clarify root memcg oom accounting
> 
> David Rientjes has pointed out that the current way how the root memcg
> is accounted for the cgroup aware OOM killer is undocumented. Unlike
> regular cgroups there is no accounting going on in the root memcg
> (mostly for performance reasons). Therefore we are suming up oom_badness
> of its tasks. This might result in an over accounting because of the
> oom_score_adj setting. Document this for now.
> 
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>