Re: [v8 0/4] cgroup-aware OOM killer

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 02-10-17 13:00:54, Tim Hockin wrote:
> In the example above:
> 
>        root
>        /    \
>      A      D
>      / \
>    B   C
> 
> Does oom_group allow me to express "compare A and D; if A is chosen
> compare B and C; kill the loser" ?  As I understand the proposal (from
> reading thread, not patch) it does not.

No it doesn't. It allows you to kill A (recursively) as the largest
memory consumer. So, no, it cannot be used for prioritization, but again
this is not yet the scope of the proposed solution.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs