[LU-13594] register OOM callback in Lustre

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.14.0
• Labels: debug easy
• Assignee: Etienne Aujames
• Reporter: Andreas Dilger

Description

It would be useful to register an OOM callback in Lustre using register_oom_notifier() (and deregister at shutdown with unregister_oom_notifier(), firstly in libcfs and obdclass to print the current libcfs_kmemory and memused_show()/memused_max_show(), as well as potentially trying to shrink caches (e.g. the number of LNet message buffers, debug logs, etc.) before a userspace process is killed.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-15963 sanityn test_56b: OSS OOM with ZFS
• is related to: LU-12830 RHEL8.3 and ZFS: oom on OSS
• is related to: LU-14456 ost-pools test_23b: ll_ost_io00_007 invoked oom-killer

Comments

[Andreas Dilger]

I've seen this callback a few times recently, running sanityn test_56 on ZFS but the current code just prints a brief message without much context and does nothing else:

[16506.409968] obd_memory max: 200336259, obd_memory current: 200336259
[16506.975974] obd_memory max: 200416739, obd_memory current: 200416739
[16507.013294] obd_memory max: 200416739, obd_memory current: 200416739
[16507.020553] obd_memory max: 200416739, obd_memory current: 200416739
[16507.035227] obd_memory max: 200416739, obd_memory current: 200416739
[16507.218562] obd_memory max: 200471595, obd_memory current: 200471595
[16507.224060] obd_memory max: 200471595, obd_memory current: 200471595
[16507.226494] obd_memory max: 200471595, obd_memory current: 200471595
[16507.229583] obd_memory max: 200471595, obd_memory current: 200471595
[16507.231476] obd_memory max: 200471595, obd_memory current: 200471595

It would be better if this message was prefixed with "{{Lustre: OOM handler: }}" to give some context to what it means.

Secondly, having the handler itself at least provides some minimal information (Lustre memory usage is 200MB in this case, on a 3GB VM, not including LNet memory usage which should also be printed).

It would be better if this callback actually tried to do something useful under memory pressure. Possible candidates would be:

• reduce number of server threads to free per-thread allocations
• cancel DLM locks on server (see LU-6529 and related tickets)
• cancel DLM locks on client (drop LRU completely, if not already done)
• drop cached pages on client

[Peter Jones]

Landed for 2.15

[Gerrit Updater]

"Oleg Drokin <[e-mail]>" merged in patch https://review.whamcloud.com/42121/
Subject: LU-13594 obdclass: Add OOM handler for obdclass
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set:
Commit: 54d4cca6cb0c92a09b364974438d91d4331a036f

[Gerrit Updater]

Arshad Hussain ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/42121
Subject: LU-13594 obdclass: Add OOM handler for obdclass
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: 2e61cf0c6c84608ea583ce342270746c84de7b69