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From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"David Radford" <dradford@bluehost.com>,
	"Marco Innocenti" <m.innocenti@cineca.it>,
	"Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Carl Henrik Lunde" <chlunde@ping.uio.no>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Divyesh Shah" <dpshah@google.com>,
	"Matt Heaton" <matt@bluehost.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Naveen Gupta" <ngupta@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C776B0.9070703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220982584.23386.219.camel@nimitz>

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:38 +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
>> It allows to control how much dirty file pages a cgroup can have at any
>> given time. This feature is supposed to be strictly connected to a
>> generic cgroup IO controller (see below).
> 
> So, this functions similarly to our global dirty ratio?  Is it just
> intended to keep a cgroup from wedging itself too hard with too many
> dirty pages, just like the global ratio?
> 
> -- Dave

Correct, it's the same functionality provided by vm.dirty_ratio and
vm.dirty_background_ratio, except that is intended to be per-cgroup.

Without this functionality, a cgroup can even dirty all its memory,
allocated by the memory controller, since statistics and writeback
configurations are global.

-Andrea

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From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"David Radford" <dradford@bluehost.com>,
	"Marco Innocenti" <m.innocenti@cineca.it>,
	"Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Carl Henrik Lunde" <chlunde@ping.uio.no>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Divyesh Shah" <dpshah@google.com>,
	"Matt Heaton" <matt@bluehost.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Naveen Gupta" <ngupta@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C776B0.9070703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220982584.23386.219.camel@nimitz>

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:38 +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
>> It allows to control how much dirty file pages a cgroup can have at any
>> given time. This feature is supposed to be strictly connected to a
>> generic cgroup IO controller (see below).
> 
> So, this functions similarly to our global dirty ratio?  Is it just
> intended to keep a cgroup from wedging itself too hard with too many
> dirty pages, just like the global ratio?
> 
> -- Dave

Correct, it's the same functionality provided by vm.dirty_ratio and
vm.dirty_background_ratio, except that is intended to be per-cgroup.

Without this functionality, a cgroup can even dirty all its memory,
allocated by the memory controller, since statistics and writeback
configurations are global.

-Andrea

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 15:38 [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages Andrea Righi
2008-09-09 15:38 ` Andrea Righi
2008-09-09 16:26 ` kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-09-09 16:26   ` kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-09-09 16:39   ` Andrea Righi
2008-09-09 16:39     ` Andrea Righi
     [not found]   ` <11118085.1220977593430.kamezawa.hiroyu-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-09 16:39     ` Andrea Righi
     [not found] ` <48C6987D.2050905-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-09 16:26   ` kamezawa.hiroyu-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A
2008-09-09 17:49   ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-09 17:49 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-09 17:49   ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-10  7:26   ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2008-09-10  7:26     ` Andrea Righi
2008-09-10  7:26   ` Andrea Righi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 15:38 Andrea Righi

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