Re: [PATCH v8] oom_kill.c: futex: Don't OOM reap the VMA containing the robust_list_head

[Nico Pache]

On 4/8/22 05:36, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 08-04-22 04:52:33, Nico Pache wrote:
> [...]
>> In a heavily contended CPU with high memory pressure the delay may also
>> lead to other processes unnecessarily OOMing.
> 
> Let me just comment on this part because there is likely a confusion
> inlved. Delaying the oom_reaper _cannot_ lead to additional OOM killing
> because the the oom killing is throttled by existence of a preexisting
> OOM victim. In other words as long as there is an alive victim no
> further victims are not selected and the oom killer backs off. The
> oom_repaer will hide the alive oom victim after it is processed.
> The longer the delay will be the longer an oom victim can block a
> further progress but it cannot really cause unnecessary OOMing.
Is it not the case that if we delay an OOM, the amount of available memory stays
limited and other processes that are allocating memory can become OOM candidates?

-- Nico