On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> This option defines whether a cgroup should be treated
> as a single entity by the OOM killer.
>
> If set, the OOM killer will compare the whole cgroup with other
> memory consumers (other cgroups and tasks in the root cgroup),
> and in case of an OOM will kill all belonging tasks.
>
> Disabled by default.
>
...
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -5265,6 +5292,12 @@ static struct cftype memory_files[] = {
> .write = memory_max_write,
> },
> {
> + .name = "oom_kill_all_tasks",
> + .flags = CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT,
> + .seq_show = memory_oom_kill_all_tasks_show,
> + .write = memory_oom_kill_all_tasks_write,
> + },
> + {
> .name = "events",
> .flags = CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT,
> .file_offset = offsetof(struct mem_cgroup, events_file),
I don't really like the name of the new knob, but can't come up with
anything better :-( May be, drop '_tasks' suffix and call it just
'oom_kill_all'? Or perhaps we should emphasize the fact that this
cgroup is treated as a single entity by the OOM killer by calling it
'oom_entity' or 'oom_unit'? Dunno...
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