From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"mhocko@suse.com" <mhocko@suse.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] signal: extend pidfd_send_signal() to allow expedited process killing
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:59:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJuCfpFjwv7SFEYZ9gbZXYdiPSPpnKHaXfsbEJorN8Y55QAjVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190411214458.GB31565@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:45 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:33 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 06:43:53PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > > Add new SS_EXPEDITE flag to be used when sending SIGKILL via
> > > > pidfd_send_signal() syscall to allow expedited memory reclaim of the
> > > > victim process. The usage of this flag is currently limited to SIGKILL
> > > > signal and only to privileged users.
> > >
> > > What is the downside of doing expedited memory reclaim? ie why not do it
> > > every time a process is going to die?
>
> Hello, Suren!
>
> I also like the idea to reap always.
>
> > I think with an implementation that does not use/abuse oom-reaper
> > thread this could be done for any kill. As I mentioned oom-reaper is a
> > limited resource which has access to memory reserves and should not be
> > abused in the way I do in this reference implementation.
>
> In most OOM cases it doesn't matter that much which task to reap,
> so I don't think that reusing the oom-reaper thread is bad.
> It should be relatively easy to tweak in a way, that it won't
> wait for mmap_sem if there are other tasks waiting to be reaped.
> Also, the oom code add to the head of the list, and the expedited
> killing to the end, or something like this.
>
> The only think, if we're going to reap all tasks, we probably
> want to have a per-node oom_reaper thread.
Thanks for the ideas Roman. I'll take some time to digest the input
from everybody. What I heard from everyone is that we want this to be
a part of generic kill functionality which does not require a change
in userspace API.
> Thanks!
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-11 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 1:43 [RFC 0/2] opportunistic memory reclaim of a killed process Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 1:43 ` [RFC 1/2] mm: oom: expose expedite_reclaim to use oom_reaper outside of oom_kill.c Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-25 21:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-25 21:56 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 1:43 ` [RFC 2/2] signal: extend pidfd_send_signal() to allow expedited process killing Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 10:30 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-11 10:34 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-11 15:18 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 15:23 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 16:25 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 15:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-11 17:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-04-11 17:09 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 17:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 17:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-11 17:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-12 6:49 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-12 14:15 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-12 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-12 21:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-11 17:52 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 21:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2019-04-11 21:59 ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
2019-04-12 6:53 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-12 14:10 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-12 14:14 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-12 15:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-25 16:09 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 10:51 ` [RFC 0/2] opportunistic memory reclaim of a killed process Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 16:18 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-11 18:12 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 19:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-11 20:11 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 21:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-11 16:20 ` Sandeep Patil
2019-04-11 16:47 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 18:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 19:56 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-04-11 20:17 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 17:19 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-04-11 11:51 ` [Lsf-pc] " Rik van Riel
2019-04-11 12:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 16:54 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
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