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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] Revert "oom: give the dying task a higher priority"
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:06:48PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> This reverts commit 93b43fa55088fe977503a156d1097cc2055449a2.
>
> The commit dramatically improve oom killer logic when fork-bomb
> occur. But, I've found it has nasty corner case. Now cpu cgroup
> has strange default RT runtime. It's 0! That said, if a process
> under cpu cgroup promote RT scheduling class, the process never
> run at all.
>
> Eventually, kernel may hang up when oom kill occur.
>
> The author need to resubmit it as adding knob and disabled
> by default if he really need this feature.
>
> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

Just a comment below.

> ---
> mm/oom_kill.c | 27 ---------------------------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 3100bc5..739dee4 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -84,24 +84,6 @@ static bool has_intersects_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk,
> #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>
> /*
> - * If this is a system OOM (not a memcg OOM) and the task selected to be
> - * killed is not already running at high (RT) priorities, speed up the
> - * recovery by boosting the dying task to the lowest FIFO priority.
> - * That helps with the recovery and avoids interfering with RT tasks.
> - */
> -static void boost_dying_task_prio(struct task_struct *p,
> - struct mem_cgroup *mem)
> -{
> - struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 1 };
> -
> - if (mem)
> - return;
> -
> - if (!rt_task(p))
> - sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
> -}
> -
> -/*
> * The process p may have detached its own ->mm while exiting or through
> * use_mm(), but one or more of its subthreads may still have a valid
> * pointer. Return p, or any of its subthreads with a valid ->mm, with
> @@ -452,13 +434,6 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
> set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
>
> - /*
> - * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
> - * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
> - * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
> - */
> - boost_dying_task_prio(p, mem);
> -

Before merging 93b43fa5508, we had a following routine.

+static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem)
{
p = find_lock_task_mm(p);
if (!p) {
@@ -434,9 +452,17 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
K(get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_FILEPAGES)));
task_unlock(p);

- p->rt.time_slice = HZ; <<---- THIS
+
set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
+
+ /*
+ * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
+ * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
+ * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
+ */
+ boost_dying_task_prio(p, mem);
+
return 0;
}

At that time, I thought that routine is meaningless in non-RT scheduler.
So I Cced Peter but don't get the answer.
I just want to confirm it.
Do you still think it's meaningless?
so you remove it when you revert 93b43fa5508?
Then, this isn't just revert patch but revert + killing meaningless code patch.


-
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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