Re: [patch -mm v2 2/3] mm, memcg: replace cgroup aware oom killer mount option with tunable
From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 12:30:02 EST
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 01:20:11PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From 361275a05ad7026b8f721f8aa756a4975a2c42b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:54:15 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] oom, memcg: clarify root memcg oom accounting
>
> David Rientjes has pointed out that the current way how the root memcg
> is accounted for the cgroup aware OOM killer is undocumented. Unlike
> regular cgroups there is no accounting going on in the root memcg
> (mostly for performance reasons). Therefore we are suming up oom_badness
> of its tasks. This might result in an over accounting because of the
> oom_score_adj setting. Document this for now.
>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>