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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
	"Sultan Alsawaf" <sultan@kerneltoast.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
	"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	"Christian Brauner" <christian@brauner.io>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Tim Murray" <timmurray@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] simple_lmk: Introduce Simple Low Memory Killer for Android
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:33:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190312153315.GV5721@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190312152541.GI19508@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue 12-03-19 08:25:41, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 11-03-19 15:15:35, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > Yeah, killing speed is a well-known problem which we are considering
> > > in LMKD. For example the recent LMKD change to assign process being
> > > killed to a cpuset cgroup containing big cores cuts the kill time
> > > considerably. This is not ideal and we are thinking about better ways
> > > to expedite the cleanup process.
> > 
> > If you design is relies on the speed of killing then it is fundamentally
> > flawed AFAICT. You cannot assume anything about how quickly a task dies.
> > It might be blocked in an uninterruptible sleep or performin an
> > operation which takes some time. Sure, oom_reaper might help here but
> > still.
> 
> Many UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps can be converted to KILLABLE sleeps.  It just
> needs someone to do the work.

They can and should as much as possible. No question about that. But not
all of them can and that is why nobody should be relying on that. That
is the whole point of having the oom_reaper and async oom victim tear
down.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-10 20:34 [RFC] simple_lmk: Introduce Simple Low Memory Killer for Android Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-10 21:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-10 21:26   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-11 16:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-11 16:37   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-11 17:43 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-11 17:58   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-11 20:10     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-11 20:46       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-11 21:11         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-11 21:46           ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-11 22:15         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-11 22:36           ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-12  8:05           ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 14:36             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-12 15:25             ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-03-12 15:33               ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-03-12 15:39                 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 16:37             ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-12 16:48               ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 16:58               ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 17:15                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-12 17:17               ` Tim Murray
2019-03-12 17:45                 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-12 18:43                   ` Tim Murray
2019-03-12 18:50                     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-14 17:47                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-14 20:49                   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-15  2:54                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15  3:43                       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-15  3:16                     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-15  3:45                       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-03-15  4:36                       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-15 13:36                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15 15:56                         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-15 16:12                           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-15 16:43                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-15 17:17                           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-15 18:03                         ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-15 18:13                           ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15 18:24                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-15 18:49                               ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-16 17:31                                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-16 18:00                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-16 18:57                                     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-16 19:37                                       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-03-17  1:53                                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-17 11:42                                           ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-17 15:40                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-18  0:29                                               ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-18 23:50                                                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-19 22:14                                                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-19 22:26                                                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-19 22:48                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-19 23:10                                                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20  1:52                                                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-20  2:42                                                           ` pidfd design Daniel Colascione
2019-03-20  3:59                                                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20  7:02                                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-20 11:33                                                                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-20 18:26                                                                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20 18:38                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-20 18:51                                                                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20 18:58                                                                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-20 19:14                                                                           ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20 19:40                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-21 17:02                                                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-25 20:13                                                                                 ` Jann Horn
2019-03-25 20:23                                                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-25 23:42                                                                                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-25 23:45                                                                                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-26  0:00                                                                                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-26  0:12                                                                                           ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-26  0:24                                                                                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-28  9:21                                                                                               ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-20 19:19                                                                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-20 19:29                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-24 14:44                                                                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2019-03-24 18:48                                                                             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-20 19:11                                                                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-05-07  2:16                                                           ` [RFC] simple_lmk: Introduce Simple Low Memory Killer for Android Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-07  7:04                                                             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-07  7:27                                                               ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-07  7:43                                                                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-07  8:12                                                                   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-07 10:58                                                                     ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-07 16:28                                                                       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-05-07 16:38                                                                         ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-07 16:53                                                                         ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-07 20:01                                                                           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-05-07 18:46                                                                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-05-07 17:17                                                                       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-07 17:29                                                                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-07 11:09                                                                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-07 12:26                                                             ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-07 15:31                                                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-07 16:35                                                               ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-09 15:56                                                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-09 18:33                                                                   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-10 15:10                                                                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-13 16:45                                                                       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-14 16:44                                                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-14 17:31                                                                           ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-15 14:58                                                                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-15 17:27                                                                           ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-15 18:32                                                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-15 18:52                                                                               ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-05-15 20:09                                                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-16 13:54                                                                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-03-17 16:35                                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2019-03-17 17:11                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-17 17:16                                                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2019-03-17 22:02                                                   ` Suren Baghdasaryan

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