Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:55:44 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC -v2] panic_on_oom_timeout |
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On Wed 17-06-15 15:24:27, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 17-06-15 14:51:27, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > The important thing is to decide what is the reasonable way forward. We > > have two two implementations of panic based timeout. So we should decide > > And the most obvious question, of course. > - Should we add a panic timeout at all? > > > - Should be the timeout bound to panic_on_oom? > > - Should we care about constrained OOM contexts? > > - If yes should they use the same timeout? > > - If yes should each memcg be able to define its own timeout? > ^ no > > > My thinking is that it should be bound to panic_on_oom=1 only until we > > hear from somebody actually asking for a constrained oom and even then > > do not allow for too large configuration space (e.g. no per-memcg > > timeout) or have separate mempolicy vs. memcg timeouts. > > > > Let's start simple and make things more complicated later!
Any more ideas/thoughts on this? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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