Re: [v10 3/6] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer

[Roman Gushchin]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 05-10-17 11:27:07, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 02:24:26PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> [...]
> > > Sorry about the confusion. There are two things. First, should we do a
> > > css_get on the newly selected memcg within the for loop when we still
> > > have a reference to it?
> > 
> > We're holding rcu_read_lock, it should be enough. We're bumping css counter
> > just before releasing rcu lock.
> 
> yes
> 
> > > 
> > > Second, for the OFFLINE memcg, you are right oom_evaluate_memcg() will
> > > return 0 for offlined memcgs. Maybe no need to call
> > > oom_evaluate_memcg() for offlined memcgs.
> > 
> > Sounds like a good optimization, which can be done on top of the current
> > patchset.
> 
> You could achive this by checking whether a memcg has tasks rather than
> explicitly checking for children memcgs as I've suggested already.

Using cgroup_has_tasks() will require additional locking, so I'm not sure
it worth it.