From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
kernel-team@fb.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [v3 6/6] mm,oom,docs: describe the cgroup-aware OOM killer
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:19:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498079956-24467-7-git-send-email-guro@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498079956-24467-1-git-send-email-guro@fb.com>
Update cgroups v2 docs.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
---
Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index a86f3cb..7a1a1ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ CONTENTS
5-2-1. Memory Interface Files
5-2-2. Usage Guidelines
5-2-3. Memory Ownership
+ 5-2-4. Cgroup-aware OOM Killer
5-3. IO
5-3-1. IO Interface Files
5-3-2. Writeback
@@ -799,6 +800,26 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
high limit is used and monitored properly, this limit's
utility is limited to providing the final safety net.
+ memory.oom_kill_all_tasks
+
+ A read-write single value file which exits on non-root
+ cgroups. The default is "0".
+
+ Defines whether the OOM killer should treat the cgroup
+ as a single entity during the victim selection.
+
+ If set, it will cause the OOM killer to kill all belonging
+ tasks, both in case of a system-wide or cgroup-wide OOM.
+
+ memory.oom_score_adj
+
+ A read-write single value file which exits on non-root
+ cgroups. The default is "0".
+
+ OOM killer score adjustment, which has as similar meaning
+ to a per-process value, available via /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj.
+ Should be in a range [-1000, 1000].
+
memory.events
A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
@@ -1028,6 +1049,29 @@ POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to relinquish the ownership of memory areas
belonging to the affected files to ensure correct memory ownership.
+5-2-4. Cgroup-aware OOM Killer
+
+Cgroup v2 memory controller implements a cgroup-aware OOM killer.
+It means that it treats memory cgroups as first class OOM entities.
+
+Under OOM conditions the memory controller tries to make the best
+choise of a victim, hierarchically looking for the largest memory
+consumer. By default, it will look for the biggest task in the
+biggest leaf cgroup.
+
+But a user can change this behavior by enabling the per-cgroup
+oom_kill_all_tasks option. If set, it causes the OOM killer treat
+the whole cgroup as an indivisible memory consumer. In case if it's
+selected as on OOM victim, all belonging tasks will be killed.
+
+Tasks in the root cgroup are treated as independent memory consumers,
+and are compared with other memory consumers (e.g. leaf cgroups).
+The root cgroup doesn't support the oom_kill_all_tasks feature.
+
+This affects both system- and cgroup-wide OOMs. For a cgroup-wide OOM
+the memory controller considers only cgroups belonging to the sub-tree
+of the OOM'ing cgroup.
+
5-3. IO
The "io" controller regulates the distribution of IO resources. This
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-21 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 21:19 [v3 0/6] cgroup-aware OOM killer Roman Gushchin
2017-06-21 21:19 ` [v3 1/6] mm, oom: use oom_victims counter to synchronize oom victim selection Roman Gushchin
[not found] ` <201706220040.v5M0eSnK074332@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
2017-06-22 16:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2017-06-22 20:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
[not found] ` <201706230537.IDB21366.SQHJVFOOFOMFLt-JPay3/Yim36HaxMnTkn67Xf5DAMn2ifp@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-22 21:52 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-29 18:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2017-06-29 20:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-06-29 9:04 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-21 21:19 ` [v3 2/6] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer Roman Gushchin
2017-07-10 23:05 ` David Rientjes
2017-07-11 12:51 ` Roman Gushchin
2017-07-11 20:56 ` David Rientjes
2017-07-12 12:11 ` Roman Gushchin
2017-07-12 20:26 ` David Rientjes
2017-06-21 21:19 ` [v3 3/6] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer debug info Roman Gushchin
2017-06-21 21:19 ` [v3 4/6] mm, oom: introduce oom_score_adj for memory cgroups Roman Gushchin
2017-06-21 21:19 ` [v3 5/6] mm, oom: don't mark all oom victims tasks with TIF_MEMDIE Roman Gushchin
2017-06-29 8:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-29 18:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2017-06-30 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-21 21:19 ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
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