linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] memory reserve for userspace oom-killer

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:04:05 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Dragos Sbirlea <dragoss@...gle.com>,
        Priya Duraisamy <padmapriyad@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] memory reserve for userspace oom-killer

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:26:37AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 7:58 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > >
> > > Michal has suggested ALLOC_OOM which is less risky.
> >
> > The problem is that even if you'll serve the oom daemon task with pages
> > from a reserve/custom pool, it doesn't guarantee anything, because the task
> > still can wait for a long time on some mutex, taken by another process,
> > throttled somewhere in the reclaim.
> 
> I am assuming here by mutex you are referring to locks which
> oom-killer might have to take to read metrics or any possible lock
> which oom-killer might have to take which some other process can take
> too.
> 
> Have you observed this situation happening with oomd on production?

I'm not aware of any oomd-specific issues. I'm not sure if they don't exist
at all, but so far it's wasn't a problem for us. Maybe it because you tend to
have less pagecache (as I understand), maybe it comes to specific oomd
policies/settings.

I know we had different pains with mmap_sem and atop and similar programs,
where reading process data stalled on mmap_sem for a long time.

Thanks!