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From: Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	mhocko@kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	vdavydov@parallels.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:03:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEPKNTK3DOBApeVDpwJ_B7jkLVp4GQ0ihM1PwAusyc8TWQyB_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1509221631040.7794@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:32 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> I struggle to understand how the approach of randomly continuing to kill
> more and more processes in the hope that it slows down usage of memory
> reserves or that we get lucky is better.

Thank you to one and all for the feedback.

I agree, in lieu of treating TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks as unkillable,
and omitting them from the oom selection process, continuing the
carnage is likely to result in more unpredictable results. At this
time, I believe Oleg's solution of zapping the process memory use
while it sleeps with the fatal signal enroute is ideal.

Kyle Walker

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-23 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 17:59 [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks Kyle Walker
2015-09-17 19:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 15:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 16:24     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 16:39       ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-18 16:54         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 17:00       ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 19:07         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 19:19           ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 21:28             ` Kyle Walker
2015-09-18 22:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-19  8:32         ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19 14:33           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 15:51             ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:33             ` David Rientjes
2015-09-22  5:33               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 23:32                 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 12:03                   ` Kyle Walker [this message]
2015-09-24 11:50                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 14:44           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:27         ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19  8:25     ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19  8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:08   ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19 15:03 ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:10   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:58   ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:16     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 22:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-19 22:54     ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:00     ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20  9:33     ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:06       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 12:56     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 18:05       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 18:21         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 18:23         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 19:07         ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-21 13:57           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 13:44         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 14:24           ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 15:32             ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 16:12               ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-22 16:06                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 23:04                   ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 20:59                   ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-24 21:15                     ` David Rientjes
2015-09-25  9:35                       ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-25 16:14                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 16:18                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:28                             ` David Rientjes
2015-10-02 12:36                             ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 19:01                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-05 14:44                                 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-07  5:16                                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-07 10:43                                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-08  9:40                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06  7:55                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-06  8:49                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06  8:55                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06 14:52                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-03  6:02                               ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 14:51                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12  6:43                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 15:25                                     ` Silent hang up caused by pages being not scanned? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 21:23                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-13 12:21                                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-13 16:37                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-14 12:21                                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-15 13:14                                             ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 15:57                                               ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 18:34                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-16 18:49                                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-19 12:57                                                     ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-19 12:53                                                   ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 13:32                                       ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 16:19                                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 13:22                                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 14:38                                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 14:59                                               ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 15:06                                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-26 11:44                                     ` Newbie's question: memory allocation when reclaiming memory Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-05  8:46                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06 15:25                                 ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Linus Torvalds
2015-10-08 15:33                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-10 12:50                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:24                         ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? David Rientjes
2015-09-29  7:57                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-29 22:56                             ` David Rientjes
2015-09-30  4:25                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 10:21                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 21:11                                 ` David Rientjes
2015-10-01 12:13                                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-01 14:48                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 13:06                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 18:45                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-07 11:03                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-07 12:00                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-08 14:04                           ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-08 14:01                       ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 16:51               ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 12:43                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 14:30                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 14:45                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:42               ` David Rientjes
2015-09-21 16:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 14:50   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 14:55     ` Oleg Nesterov

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