Re: [PATCH] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:48 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:18:44 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Kame.
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:59 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>> > A patch for avoiding oom-serial-killer at lowmem shortage.
>> > Patch is onto mmotm-2010/01/15 (depends on mm-count-lowmem-rss.patch)
>> > Tested on x86-64/SMP + debug module(to allocated lowmem), works well.
>> >
>> > ==
>> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > One cause of OOM-Killer is memory shortage in lower zones.
>> > (If memory is enough, lowmem_reserve_ratio works well. but..)
>> >
>> > In lowmem-shortage oom-kill, oom-killer choses a vicitim process
>> > on their vm size. But this kills a process which has lowmem memory
>> > only if it's lucky. At last, there will be an oom-serial-killer.
>> >
>> > Now, we have per-mm lowmem usage counter. We can make use of it
>> > to select a good? victim.
>> >
>> > This patch does
>> > Â - add CONSTRAINT_LOWMEM to oom's constraint type.
>> > Â - pass constraint to __badness()
>> > Â - change calculation based on constraint. If CONSTRAINT_LOWMEM,
>> > Â Â use low_rss instead of vmsize.
>>
>> As far as low memory, it would be better to consider lowmem counter.
>> But as you know, {vmsize VS rss} is debatable topic.
>> Maybe someone doesn't like this idea.
>>
> About lowmem, vmsize never work well.
>

Tend to agree with you.
I am just worried about "vmsize lovers".

You removed considering vmsize totally.
In case of LOWMEM, lowcount considering make sense.
But never considering vmsize might be debatable.

So personllay, I thouhg we could add more weight lowcount
in case of LOWMEM. But I chaged my mind.
I think it make OOM heurisic more complated without big benefit.

Simple is best.

>> So don't we need any test result at least?
> My test result was very artificial, so I didn't attach the result.
>
> Â- Before this patch, sshd was killed at first.
> Â- After this patch, memory consumer of low-rss was killed.

Okay. You already anwsered my question by Balbir's reply.
I had a question it's real problem and how often it happens.

>
>> If we don't have this patch, it happens several innocent process
>> killing. but we can't prevent it by this patch.
>>
> I can't catch what you mean.

I just said your patch's benefit.

>> Sorry for bothering you.
>>
>
> Hmm, boot option or CONFIG ? (CONFIG_OOMKILLER_EXTENSION ?)
>
> I'm now writing fork-bomb detector again and want to remove current
> "gathering child's vm_size" heuristics. I'd like to put that under
> the same config, too.

Totally, I don't like CONFIG option for that.
But vmsize lovers also don't want to change current behavior.
So it's desirable until your fork-form detector become mature and
prove it's good.

One more questions about below.

+       if (constraint != CONSTRAINT_LOWMEM) {
+               list_for_each_entry(child, &p->children, sibling) {
+                       task_lock(child);
+                       if (child->mm != mm && child->mm)
+                               points += child->mm->total_vm/2 + 1;
+                       task_unlock(child);
+               }

Why didn't you consider child's lowmem counter in case of LOWMEM?

>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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