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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.com, rientjes@google.com,
	yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com, jrdr.linux@gmail.com, guro@fb.com,
	penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	shakeelb@google.com, christian@brauner.io, minchan@kernel.org,
	timmurray@google.com, dancol@google.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
	jannh@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] signal: extend pidfd_send_signal() to allow expedited process killing
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:05:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190411170540.GA5136@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190411153313.GE22763@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 08:33:13AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox 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?

I agree with this. The oom reaper mostly does work the exiting task
would have to do anyway, so this shouldn't be measurably more
expensive to do it per default. I wouldn't want to add a new interface
unless we really do need that type of control.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-11 17:05 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 [this message]
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
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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