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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	mhocko-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org,
	linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org,
	hannes-druUgvl0LCNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org,
	cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro
	<kosaki.motohiro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org,
	containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] meminfo: show /proc/meminfo base on container's memcg
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 02:23:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC70E5E.1010003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302314190.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>

(5/31/12 2:17 AM), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
>
>>> The bottomline is that /proc/meminfo is one of many global resource state
>>> interfaces and doesn't imply that every thread has access to the full
>>> resources.  It never has.  It's very simple for another thread to consume
>>> a large amount of memory as soon as your read() of /proc/meminfo completes
>>> and then that information is completely bogus.
>>
>> Why you need to discuss this here ? We know all information are snapshot.
>>
>
> MemTotal is usually assumed to be static from /proc/meminfo and could now
> change radically without notification to the application.
>
>> Hmm....maybe need to mount cgroup in the container (again) and get an access
>> to cgroup
>> hierarchy and find the cgroup it belongs to......if it's allowed.
>
> An application should always know the cgroup that its attached to and be
> able to read its state using the command that I gave earlier.

No. you don't need why userland folks want namespaces. Even though you don't
need namespaces. It doesn't good reason to refuse another use case.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@suse.cz, bsingharora@gmail.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] meminfo: show /proc/meminfo base on container's memcg
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 02:23:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC70E5E.1010003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302314190.25774@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

(5/31/12 2:17 AM), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
>
>>> The bottomline is that /proc/meminfo is one of many global resource state
>>> interfaces and doesn't imply that every thread has access to the full
>>> resources.  It never has.  It's very simple for another thread to consume
>>> a large amount of memory as soon as your read() of /proc/meminfo completes
>>> and then that information is completely bogus.
>>
>> Why you need to discuss this here ? We know all information are snapshot.
>>
>
> MemTotal is usually assumed to be static from /proc/meminfo and could now
> change radically without notification to the application.
>
>> Hmm....maybe need to mount cgroup in the container (again) and get an access
>> to cgroup
>> hierarchy and find the cgroup it belongs to......if it's allowed.
>
> An application should always know the cgroup that its attached to and be
> able to read its state using the command that I gave earlier.

No. you don't need why userland folks want namespaces. Even though you don't
need namespaces. It doesn't good reason to refuse another use case.

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WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@suse.cz, bsingharora@gmail.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] meminfo: show /proc/meminfo base on container's memcg
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 02:23:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC70E5E.1010003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302314190.25774@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

(5/31/12 2:17 AM), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
>
>>> The bottomline is that /proc/meminfo is one of many global resource state
>>> interfaces and doesn't imply that every thread has access to the full
>>> resources.  It never has.  It's very simple for another thread to consume
>>> a large amount of memory as soon as your read() of /proc/meminfo completes
>>> and then that information is completely bogus.
>>
>> Why you need to discuss this here ? We know all information are snapshot.
>>
>
> MemTotal is usually assumed to be static from /proc/meminfo and could now
> change radically without notification to the application.
>
>> Hmm....maybe need to mount cgroup in the container (again) and get an access
>> to cgroup
>> hierarchy and find the cgroup it belongs to......if it's allowed.
>
> An application should always know the cgroup that its attached to and be
> able to read its state using the command that I gave earlier.

No. you don't need why userland folks want namespaces. Even though you don't
need namespaces. It doesn't good reason to refuse another use case.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-31  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-29  2:56 [PATCH] meminfo: show /proc/meminfo base on container's memcg Gao feng
2012-05-29  2:56 ` Gao feng
     [not found] ` <1338260214-21919-1-git-send-email-gaofeng-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-29  8:24   ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-29  8:24   ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-29  8:24     ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-29  8:24     ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-30 21:38   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 21:38   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 21:38     ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 21:38     ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 23:20     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-05-30 23:20       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
     [not found]       ` <20120530232004.GA15423-oKw7cIdHH8eLwutG50LtGA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  0:35         ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:35           ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:35           ` David Rientjes
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205301433490.9716-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-30 23:20       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-05-31  0:08       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:08         ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:08         ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]         ` <4FC6B68C.2070703-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  0:22           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  0:22           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  0:22             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  0:22             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]             ` <CAHGf_=pFbsy4FO_UNu6O1-KyTd6O=pkmR8=3EGuZB5Reu3Vb9w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  0:33               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:33                 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:33                 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                 ` <4FC6BC3E.5010807-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  0:44                   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:44                     ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:44                     ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205301737530.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  0:53                       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:53                     ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  0:53                       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                       ` <4FC6C111.2060108-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  1:31                         ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  1:31                           ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  1:31                           ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                           ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205301831270.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  2:33                             ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  2:33                               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  2:33                               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  5:02                               ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  5:02                                 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  5:36                                 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  5:36                                   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                                   ` <4FC70355.70805-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  6:17                                     ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:17                                       ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:17                                       ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                                       ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302314190.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  6:23                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2012-05-31  6:23                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  6:23                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]                                           ` <4FC70E5E.1010003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  6:28                                             ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:28                                               ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:28                                               ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                                               ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302325500.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  6:37                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  6:37                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  6:37                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]                                                   ` <4FC711A5.4090003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  6:56                                                     ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:56                                                       ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  6:56                                                       ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                                                       ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302351510.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  7:09                                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:09                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:09                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]                                                           ` <CAHGf_=qVDVT6VW2j9gE3bQKwizW24iivrDryiCKoxVu4m_fWKw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  7:35                                                             ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  7:35                                                               ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  7:35                                                               ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                                                               ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205310028420.8864-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  7:42                                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:42                                                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:42                                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:42                                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]                                                                 ` <4FC720EE.3010307-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  7:57                                                                   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-31  7:57                                                                   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-31  7:57                                                                     ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-31  7:57                                                                     ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-31  7:58                                                                   ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  7:58                                                                     ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  7:58                                                                     ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  8:32                                                                     ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:32                                                                       ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:32                                                                       ` Glauber Costa
     [not found]                                                                       ` <4FC72CA4.6080708-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  8:51                                                                         ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  8:51                                                                           ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  8:51                                                                           ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                                                                           ` <4FC73110.6010107-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  8:59                                                                             ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:59                                                                               ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:59                                                                               ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:51                                                                         ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  8:55                                                                         ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  8:55                                                                       ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  8:55                                                                         ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  8:55                                                                         ` Gao feng
     [not found]                                                                         ` <4FC73203.2070009-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  8:56                                                                           ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:56                                                                           ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:56                                                                             ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:56                                                                             ` Glauber Costa
     [not found]                                                                     ` <4FC724B1.70508-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  8:32                                                                       ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  7:58                                                                   ` Gao feng
2012-05-31  7:35                                                             ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  7:07                                                     ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  7:07                                                       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  7:07                                                       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                                                       ` <4FC718BA.8060608-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  7:23                                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:23                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:23                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-31  7:07                                                     ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-05-31  8:29                                         ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:29                                           ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-31  8:29                                           ` Glauber Costa
     [not found]                                 ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302156090.25774-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  5:36                                   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
     [not found]                               ` <4FC6D881.4090706-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31  5:02                                 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:44                   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31  0:33               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-07 23:18   ` Zhu Yanhai
2012-06-07 23:18     ` Zhu Yanhai
2012-06-07 23:18     ` Zhu Yanhai
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-29  2:56 Gao feng

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