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SubjectRe: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority
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> * Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org> [2010-05-28 00:51:47]:
>
> > @@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ static void dump_header(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> > */
> > static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose)
> > {
> > + struct sched_param param;
> > +
> > if (is_global_init(p)) {
> > WARN_ON(1);
> > printk(KERN_WARNING "tried to kill init!\n");
> > @@ -413,8 +415,9 @@ static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose)
> > */
> > p->rt.time_slice = HZ;
> > set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
> > -
> > force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
> > + param.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1;
> > + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
> > }
> >
>
> I would like to understand the visible benefits of this patch. Have
> you seen an OOM kill tasked really get bogged down. Should this task
> really be competing with other important tasks for run time?

What you mean important? Until OOM victim task exit completely, the system have no memory.
all of important task can't do anything.

In almost kernel subsystems, automatically priority boost is really bad idea because
it may break RT task's deterministic behavior. but OOM is one of exception. The deterministic
was alread broken by memory starvation.

That's the reason I acked it.




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