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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: jmarchan@redhat.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2] Enforce RSS+Swap rlimit
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC2FDA9.6050401@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC264AA.30306@redhat.com>

On 11/15/2011 8:10 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> 
> Change since V1: rebase on 3.2-rc1
> 
> Currently RSS rlimit is not enforced. We can not forbid a process to exceeds
> its RSS limit and allow it swap out. That would hurts the performance of all
> system, even when memory resources are plentiful.
> 
> Therefore, instead of enforcing a limit on rss usage alone, this patch enforces
> a limit on rss+swap value. This is similar to memsw limits of cgroup.
> If a process rss+swap usage exceeds RLIMIT_RSS max limit, he received a SIGBUS
> signal. 

No good idea.
 - RLIMIT_RSS has clear definition and this patch break it. you should makes
   another rlimit at least.
 - SIGBUS can be ignored. rlimit shouldn't ignorable.



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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: jmarchan@redhat.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2] Enforce RSS+Swap rlimit
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC2FDA9.6050401@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC264AA.30306@redhat.com>

On 11/15/2011 8:10 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> 
> Change since V1: rebase on 3.2-rc1
> 
> Currently RSS rlimit is not enforced. We can not forbid a process to exceeds
> its RSS limit and allow it swap out. That would hurts the performance of all
> system, even when memory resources are plentiful.
> 
> Therefore, instead of enforcing a limit on rss usage alone, this patch enforces
> a limit on rss+swap value. This is similar to memsw limits of cgroup.
> If a process rss+swap usage exceeds RLIMIT_RSS max limit, he received a SIGBUS
> signal. 

No good idea.
 - RLIMIT_RSS has clear definition and this patch break it. you should makes
   another rlimit at least.
 - SIGBUS can be ignored. rlimit shouldn't ignorable.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04 14:45 [RFC PATCH] Enforce RSS+Swap rlimit Jerome Marchand
2011-11-04 14:45 ` Jerome Marchand
2011-11-15 13:10 ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Jerome Marchand
2011-11-15 13:10   ` Jerome Marchand
2011-11-16  0:02   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2011-11-16  0:02     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-16  9:40     ` Jerome Marchand
2011-11-16  9:40       ` Jerome Marchand
2011-11-16 10:09   ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-16 10:09     ` Balbir Singh

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