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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Modify resource counters to add soft limit support
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:24:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B32ED5.8030209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B32B27.4090406@openvz.org>

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Balbir Singh wrote:
>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> Resource counter accounts for arbitrary resource. Memory pressure
>>> and memory reclamation both only make sense in case we're dealing
>>> with memory controller. Please, remove this comment or move it to
>>> memcontrol.c.
>>>
>> Yes, they always have. The concept of soft limits, hard limits, guarantees
>> applies to all resources. Why do you say they apply only to memory controller? I
> 
> I said that *memory pressure and memory reclamation*, not the soft limits
> in general, applies to memory controller only :)
> 

I suspected that, that's why I asked if I should change the comment to make it
generic :) I'll make that change in the next revision of the patches.

>> can change the comment to make the definition generic for all resources.
>>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 15:12 [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] Add soft limits to the memory controller Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 15:12 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Modify resource counters to add soft limit support Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 17:12   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-13 17:19     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 17:38       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-13 17:54         ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2008-02-13 15:12 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/4] Add the soft limit interface Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 15:12 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Reclaim from groups over their soft limit under memory pressure Balbir Singh
2008-02-14  7:30   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-14  7:40     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-14  8:42       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-14  9:16         ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-15  4:17           ` Paul Menage
2008-02-15  4:25             ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-15  5:07               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-15  5:16                 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-15  5:18                   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-15  5:30                     ` Paul Menage
2008-02-15  5:33                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-15  5:29                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-15  6:36                     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-14 10:27   ` YAMAMOTO Takashi
2008-02-15  3:19     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 15:12 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/4] Add soft limit documentation Balbir Singh
2008-02-13 15:59   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-13 16:08     ` Balbir Singh

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