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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] oom: Be less verbose if the oom_control event fd has listeners
On Thu 05-06-14 14:01:02, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > If we are printing too much then OK, let's remove those parts which are
> > not that useful but hiding information which tells us more about the oom
> > decision doesn't sound right to me.
> >
>
> Memcg oom killer printing is controlled mostly by
> mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(), I don't see anything in the generic oom
> killer that should be removed and that I have not used even for memcg ooms
> in the past.

Yes, I find most of the information printed during OOM very helpful.
After 58cf188ed649 (memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while
memcg oom happening) even memcg oom info is helpful.

> Perhaps there could be a case made for suppressing some of the
> hierarchical stats from being printed for memcg ooms and controlled by
> another memcg knob, but it doesn't sound vital.

Agreed.

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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