Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio_balloon: introduce oom-kill invocations

[David Hildenbrand]

On 18.04.24 08:26, zhenwei pi wrote:
> When the guest OS runs under critical memory pressure, the guest
> starts to kill processes. A guest monitor agent may scan 'oom_kill'
> from /proc/vmstat, and reports the OOM KILL event. However, the agent
> may be killed and we will loss this critical event(and the later
> events).
>
> For now we can also grep for magic words in guest kernel log from host
> side. Rather than this unstable way, virtio balloon reports OOM-KILL
> invocations instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb