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From: Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yn.gaur@samsung.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"ajeet.y@samsung.com" <ajeet.y@samsung.com>,
	amit.arora@samsung.com
Subject: [EDT] oom_killer: find bulkiest task based on pss value
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 05:29:28 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1803318889.244481431062967826.JavaMail.weblogic@epmlwas09d> (raw)

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Hi Andrew,

Presently in oom_kill.c we calculate badness score of the victim task as per the present RSS counter value of the task.
RSS counter value for any task is usually '[Private (Dirty/Clean)] + [Shared (Dirty/Clean)]' of the task.
We have encountered a situation where values for Private fields are less but value for Shared fields are more and hence make total RSS counter value large. Later on oom situation killing task with highest RSS value but as Private field values are not large hence memory gain after killing this process is not as per the expectation.

For e.g. take below use-case scenario, in which 3 process are running in system. 
All these process done mmap for file exist in present directory and then copying data from this file to local allocated pointers in while(1) loop with some sleep. Out of 3 process, 2 process has mmaped file with MAP_SHARED setting and one has mapped file with MAP_PRIVATE setting.
I have all 3 processes in background and checks RSS/PSS value from user space utility (utility over cat /proc/pid/smaps)
Before OOM, below is the consumed memory status for these 3 process (all processes run with oom_score_adj = 0)
====================================================
Comm : 1prg,  Pid : 213 (values in kB)
                      Rss     Shared      Private          Pss
  Process :  375764    194596    181168     278460
====================================================
Comm : 3prg,  Pid : 217 (values in kB)
                      Rss    Shared       Private         Pss
  Process :  305760          32     305728    305738
====================================================
Comm : 2prg,  Pid : 218 (values in kB)
                      Rss      Shared       Private         Pss
  Process :  389980     194596     195384    292676
====================================================

Thus as per present code design, first it would select process [2prg : 218] as bulkiest process as its RSS value is highest to kill. But if we kill this process then only ~195MB would be free as compare to expected ~389MB.
Thus identifying the task based on RSS value is not accurate design and killing that identified process didn’t release expected memory back to system.

We need to calculate victim task based on PSS instead of RSS as PSS value calculates as
PSS value = [Private (Dirty/Clean)] + [Shared (Dirty/Clean) / no. of shared task]
For above use-case scenario also, it can be checked that process [3prg : 217] is having largest PSS value and by killing this process we can gain maximum memory (~305MB) as compare to killing process identified based on RSS value.

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Regards,
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             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-08  5:29 Yogesh Narayan Gaur [this message]
2015-05-08  7:47 ` yalin wang
2015-05-11  3:25 ` David Rientjes

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