Re: [RESEND v12 0/6] cgroup-aware OOM killer

[Johannes Weiner]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 05:24:51PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 
> > David would have really liked for this patchset to include knobs to
> > influence how the algorithm picks cgroup victims. The rest of us
> > agreed that this is beyond the scope of these patches, that the
> > patches don't need it to be useful, and that there is nothing
> > preventing anyone from adding configurability later on. David
> > subsequently nacked the series as he considers it incomplete. Neither
> > Michal nor I see technical merit in David's nack.
> > 
> 
> The nack is for three reasons:
> 
>  (1) unfair comparison of root mem cgroup usage to bias against that mem 
>      cgroup from oom kill in system oom conditions,
> 
>  (2) the ability of users to completely evade the oom killer by attaching
>      all processes to child cgroups either purposefully or unpurposefully,
>      and
> 
>  (3) the inability of userspace to effectively control oom victim  
>      selection.

My apologies if my summary was too reductionist.

That being said, the arguments you repeat here have come up in
previous threads and been responded to. This doesn't change my
conclusion that your NAK is bogus.