linux-kernel - Re: [v11 2/6] mm: implement mem_cgroup_scan

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Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2017 14:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, kernel-team@...com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v11 2/6] mm: implement mem_cgroup_scan_tasks() for the root
 memory cgroup

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Roman Gushchin wrote:

> Implement mem_cgroup_scan_tasks() functionality for the root
> memory cgroup to use this function for looking for a OOM victim
> task in the root memory cgroup by the cgroup-ware OOM killer.
> 
> The root memory cgroup is treated as a leaf cgroup, so only tasks
> which are directly belonging to the root cgroup are iterated over.
> 
> This patch doesn't introduce any functional change as
> mem_cgroup_scan_tasks() is never called for the root memcg.
> This is preparatory work for the cgroup-aware OOM killer,
> which will use this function to iterate over tasks belonging
> to the root memcg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>