On Wed 27-01-21 12:01:55, Christian König wrote:
[...]

Some years ago I've proposed an change to improve the OOM killer to take
into account how much memory is reference through special file descriptors
like device drivers or DMA-buf.

But that never want anywhere because of concerns that this would add to much
overhead to the OOM killer.

I have to admit I do not remember such a discussion. There were many on
the related topic, concerns were mostly about a proper accounting of
shared resources or locking required to gain the information. I do not
remember overhead as being the main concern as oom is a real cold path.

Anyway, if you want to revamp those patches then feel free to CC me and
we can discuss further. I do not want to hijack this thread by an
unrelated topic.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs