linux-kernel - Re: [v5 2/4] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:13:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, kernel-team@...com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5 2/4] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Roman Gushchin wrote:

> > It's better to have newbies consult the documentation once than making
> > everybody deal with long and cumbersome names for the rest of time.
> > 
> > Like 'ls' being better than 'read_and_print_directory_contents'.
> 
> I don't think it's a good argument here: realistically, nobody will type
> the knob's name often. Your option is shorter only by 3 characters :)
> 
> Anyway, I'm ok with memory.oom_group too, if everybody else prefer it.
> Michal, David?
> What's your opinion?
> 

I'm probably the worst person in the world for succinctly naming stuff, 
but I at least think the knob should have the word "kill" in it to 
describe the behavior.  ("oom_group", out of memory group, what exactly is 
that?)