From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM tasks
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 21:33:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181026193304.GD18839@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181026192551.GC18839@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri 26-10-18 21:25:51, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 26-10-18 10:25:31, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[...]
> > There is of course the scenario brought forward in this thread, where
> > multiple threads of a process race and the second one enters oom even
> > though it doesn't need to anymore. What the global case does to catch
> > this is to grab the oom lock and do one last alloc attempt. Should
> > memcg lock the oom_lock and try one more time to charge the memcg?
>
> That would be another option. I agree that making it more towards the
> global case makes it more attractive. My tsk_is_oom_victim is more
> towards "plug this particular case".
Nevertheless let me emphasise that tsk_is_oom_victim will close the race
completely, while mem_cgroup_margin will always be racy. So the question
is whether we want to close the race because it is just too easy for
userspace to hit it or keep the global and memcg oom handling as close
as possible.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-26 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-22 7:13 [RFC PATCH 0/2] oom, memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 7:13 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: marks all killed tasks as oom victims Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 7:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 8:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 9:42 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 10:43 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 10:56 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 11:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH v2 " Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 7:13 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] memcg: do not report racy no-eligible OOM tasks Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 11:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 13:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 13:43 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 15:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-23 1:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-23 11:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-23 12:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-23 12:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-23 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-26 14:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2018-10-26 19:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-26 19:33 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-10-27 1:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-11-06 9:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-11-06 12:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 9:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-11-07 10:08 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 12:43 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-12-12 10:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
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