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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/10] OOM Debug print selection and additional information
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    On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 14:17 -0700, Edward Chron wrote:
    > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:18 PM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
    > >
    > > On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:46 -0700, Edward Chron wrote:
    > > > But with the caveat that running a eBPF script that it isn't standard
    > > > Linux
    > > > operating procedure, at this point in time any way will not be well
    > > > received in the data center.
    > >
    > > Can't you get your eBPF scripts into the BCC project? As far I can tell, the
    > > BCC
    > > has been included in several distros already, and then it will become a part
    > > of
    > > standard linux toolkits.
    > >
    > > >
    > > > Our belief is if you really think eBPF is the preferred mechanism
    > > > then move OOM reporting to an eBPF.
    > > > I mentioned this before but I will reiterate this here.
    > >
    > > On the other hand, it seems many people are happy with the simple kernel OOM
    > > report we have here. Not saying the current situation is perfect. On the top
    > > of
    > > that, some people are using kdump, and some people have resource monitoring
    > > to
    > > warn about potential memory overcommits before OOM kicks in etc.
    >
    > Assuming you can implement your existing report in eBPF then those who like
    > the
    > current output would still get the current output. Same with the patches we
    > sent
    > upstream, nothing in the report changes by default. So no problems for those
    > who
    > are happy, they'll still be happy.

    I don't think it makes any sense to rewrite the existing code to depends on eBPF
    though.

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