On Wed 21-06-17 22:19:15, Roman Gushchin wrote: > We want to limit the number of tasks which are having an access > to the memory reserves. To ensure the progress it's enough > to have one such process at the time. > > If we need to kill the whole cgroup, let's give an access to the > memory reserves only to the first process in the list, which is > (usually) the biggest process. > This will give us good chances that all other processes will be able > to quit without an access to the memory reserves.
I don't like this to be honest. Is there any reason to go the reduced memory reserves access to oom victims I was suggesting earlier [1]? [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
