Re: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:57:01 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am still not convinced, specially if we are running under mem
> cgroup. Even setting SCHED_FIFO does not help, you could have other
> things like cpusets that might restrict the CPUs you can run on, or
> any other policy and we could end up contending anyway with other
> SCHED_FIFO tasks.
>  
> > That's the reason I acked it.
> 
> If we could show faster recovery from OOM or anything else, I would be
> more convinced.
> 
Off topic.

 1. Run a daemon in the highest RT priority.
 2. disable OOM for a mem cgroup.
 3. The daemon register oom-event-notifier of the mem cgroup.

 When OOM happens.
 4. The daemon receive a event, and then,
    a) enlarge limit
    or
    b) kill a task 
    or
    c) enlarge limit temporary and kill a task, later, reduce limit again.

This is the fastest and promissing operation for memcg users.

memcg's oom slowdown happens just because it's limited by a user configuration
not by the system. That's a point to be considered.
The oom situation can be _immediaterly_ fixed up by enlarge limit as emergency mode.

If you has to wait for the end of a task, there will be delay, it's unavoidable.

Thanks,
-Kame



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