linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] memcg: oom kill disable and oom status

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Message-Id: <20100316090309.22493838.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:03:09 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"kirill@...temov.name" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] memcg: oom kill disable and oom status

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:20 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:37:53 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I haven't get enough comment to this patch itself. But works well.
> > Feel free to request me if you want me to change some details.
> > 
> > ==
> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> > 
> > This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled,
> > of course, tasks under memcg will stop.
> > 
> > But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg. And the world around
> > memcg is not under out-of-memory. memcg's out-of-memory just
> > shows memcg hits limit. Then, administrator or
> > management daemon can recover the situation by
> > 	- kill some process
> > 	- enlarge limit, add more swap.
> > 	- migrate some tasks
> > 	- remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?)
> > 
> > Unlike OOM-Kill by the kernel, the users can take snapshot or coredump
> > of guilty process, cgroups.
> > 
> 
> Looks complicated.
> 
In code, hooks are in
	- usage is reduced.
	- limit is enlarged.

Maybe my explanation is bad. It's simpler than it sounds.


> > --- mmotm-2.6.34-Mar9.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ mmotm-2.6.34-Mar9/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -235,7 +235,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
> >  	 * mem_cgroup ? And what type of charges should we move ?
> >  	 */
> >  	unsigned long 	move_charge_at_immigrate;
> > -
> > +	/* Disable OOM killer */
> > +	unsigned long	oom_kill_disable;
> >  	/*
> >  	 * percpu counter.
> >  	 */
> 
> Would have been better to make this `int' or `bool', and put it next to
> some other 32-bit value in this struct.
> 

Sure, will fix.

-Kame


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