linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3]mm/oom-kill: direct hardware access processes should get bonus

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Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:33:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Figo.zhang" <zhangtianfei@...dcoretech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3]mm/oom-kill: direct hardware access processes should
 get bonus

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > the victim should not directly access hardware devices like Xorg server,
> > because the hardware could be left in an unpredictable state, although 
> > user-application can set /proc/pid/oom_score_adj to protect it. so i think
> > those processes should get bonus for protection.
> > 
> > in v2, fix the incorrect comment.
> > in v3, change the divided the badness score by 4, like old heuristic for protection. we just
> > want the oom_killer don't select Root/RESOURCE/RAWIO process as possible.
> > 
> > suppose that if a user process A such as email cleint "evolution" and a process B with
> > ditecly hareware access such as "Xorg", they have eat the equal memory (the badness score is 
> > the same),so which process are you want to kill? so in new heuristic, it will kill the process B.
> > but in reality, we want to kill process A.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@...il.com>
> > Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Sorry for the delay. I've sent completely revert patch to linus. It will
> disappear your headache, I believe. I'm sorry that our development
> caused your harm. We really don't want it.
> 

Oh please, your dramatics are getting better and better.

Figo.zhang never described a problem that was being addressed but rather 
proposed several different variants of a patch (some with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, 
some with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, some with CAP_SYS_RAWIO, some with a 
combination, some with a 3% bonus, some with a order-of-2 bonus, etc) to 
return the same heuristic used in the old oom killer.  I asked several 
times to show the oom killer log from the problematic behavior and none 
were presented.
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