Thread (59 messages) 59 messages, 9 authors, 2011-03-29

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Revert "oom: give the dying task a higher priority"

From: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-23 13:40:50
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:42:29PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
| On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:06:48 +0900 (JST)
| KOSAKI Motohiro [off-list ref] 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 [off-list ref]
| > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro [off-list ref]
| 
| Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [off-list ref]

The original patch was written to fix an issue observed in 2.6.24.7-rt.
As the logic sounded useful, I ported it to upstream. Anyway,I am trying
a few ideas to rework that patch. In the meantime, I'm pretty fine with
reverting the commit.

Acked-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <redacted>

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