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

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 04-10-17 16:46:35, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Traditionally, the OOM killer is operating on a process level.
> Under oom conditions, it finds a process with the highest oom score
> and kills it.
> 
> This behavior doesn't suit well the system with many running
> containers:
> 
> 1) There is no fairness between containers. A small container with
> few large processes will be chosen over a large one with huge
> number of small processes.
> 
> 2) Containers often do not expect that some random process inside
> will be killed. In many cases much safer behavior is to kill
> all tasks in the container. Traditionally, this was implemented
> in userspace, but doing it in the kernel has some advantages,
> especially in a case of a system-wide OOM.
> 
> To address these issues, the cgroup-aware OOM killer is introduced.
> 
> Under OOM conditions, it looks for the biggest leaf memory cgroup
> and kills the biggest task belonging to it. The following patches
> will extend this functionality to consider non-leaf memory cgroups
> as well, and also provide an ability to kill all tasks belonging
> to the victim cgroup.
> 
> The root cgroup is treated as a leaf memory cgroup, so it's score
> is compared with leaf memory cgroups.
> Due to memcg statistics implementation a special algorithm
> is used for estimating it's oom_score: we define it as maximum
> oom_score of the belonging tasks.

Thanks for separating the group_oom part. This is getting in the
mergeable state. I will ack it once the suggested fixes are folded in.
There is some clean up potential on top (I find the oc->chosen_memcg
quite ugly and will post a patch on top of yours) but that can be done
later.
 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs