In the example above: root / \ A D / \ B C Does oom_group allow me to express "compare A and D; if A is chosen compare B and C; kill the loser" ? As I understand the proposal (from reading thread, not patch) it does not. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon 02-10-17 12:45:18, Shakeel Butt wrote: >> > I am sorry to cut the rest of your proposal because it simply goes over >> > the scope of the proposed solution while the usecase you are mentioning >> > is still possible. If we want to compare intermediate nodes (which seems >> > to be the case) then we can always provide a knob to opt-in - be it your >> > oom_gang or others. >> >> In the Roman's proposed solution we can already force the comparison >> of intermediate nodes using 'oom_group', I am just requesting to >> separate the killall semantics from it. > > oom_group _is_ about killall semantic. And comparing killable entities > is just a natural thing to do. So I am not sure what you mean > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html