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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: [mm][PATCH 0/4] Add soft limits to the memory controller v2
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:32:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219070232.25349.21196.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

This patchset implements the basic changes required to implement soft limits
in the memory controller. A soft limit is a variation of the currently
supported hard limit feature. A memory cgroup can exceed it's soft limit
provided there is no contention for memory.

These patches were tested on a PowerPC box, by running a programs in parallel,
and checking their behaviour for various soft limit values.

These patches were developed on top of 2.6.25-rc2-mm1. Comments, suggestions,
criticism are all welcome!

TODOs:

1. Currently there is no ordering of memory cgroups over their limit.
   We use a simple linked list to maintain a list of groups over their
   limit. In the future, we might want to create a heap of objects ordered
   by the amount by which they exceed soft limit.
2. Distribute the excessive (non-contended) resources between groups
   in the ratio of their soft limits
3. Merge with KAMEZAWA's and YAMAMOTO's water mark and background reclaim
   patches in the long-term


series
------
memory-controller-res_counters-soft-limit-setup.patch
memory-controller-add-soft-limit-interface.patch
memory-controller-reclaim-on-contention.patch
memory-controller-add-soft-limit-documentation.patch

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-19  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  7:02 Balbir Singh [this message]
2008-02-19  7:02 ` [mm] [PATCH 1/4] Modify resource counters to add soft limit support v2 Balbir Singh
2008-02-19  7:02 ` [mm] [PATCH 2/4] Add the soft limit interface v2 Balbir Singh
2008-02-19  7:33   ` Li Zefan
2008-02-19  7:42     ` Li Zefan
2008-02-19  8:36       ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-19  8:38       ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-19  7:03 ` [mm] [PATCH 3/4] Reclaim from groups over their soft limit under memory pressure v2 Balbir Singh
2008-02-19  7:03 ` [mm] [PATCH 4/4] Add soft limit documentation v2 Balbir Singh

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