On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 1:01 PM Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> wrote:

> In the example above:
>
>        root
>        /    \
>      A      D
>      / \
>    B   C
>
> Does oom_group allow me to express "compare A and D; if A is chosen
> compare B and C; kill the loser" ?  As I understand the proposal (from
> reading thread, not patch) it does not.


It will let you compare A and D and if A is chosen then kill A, B and C.


>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon 02-10-17 12:45:18, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> >> > I am sorry to cut the rest of your proposal because it simply goes
> over
> >> > the scope of the proposed solution while the usecase you are
> mentioning
> >> > is still possible. If we want to compare intermediate nodes (which
> seems
> >> > to be the case) then we can always provide a knob to opt-in - be it
> your
> >> > oom_gang or others.
> >>
> >> In the Roman's proposed solution we can already force the comparison
> >> of intermediate nodes using 'oom_group', I am just requesting to
> >> separate the killall semantics from it.
> >
> > oom_group _is_ about killall semantic.  And comparing killable entities
> > is just a natural thing to do. So I am not sure what you mean
> >
> > --
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
>