From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d28relay04.in.ibm.com (d28relay04.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.61]) by e28esmtp07.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1DHvHer011615 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:27:17 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay04.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m1DHvHgB905380 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:27:17 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1DHvLnc019455 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:57:22 GMT Message-ID: <47B32ED5.8030209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:24:29 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Modify resource counters to add soft limit support References: <20080213151201.7529.53642.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080213151214.7529.3954.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <47B324F4.1050102@openvz.org> <47B326BA.7040000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <47B32B27.4090406@openvz.org> In-Reply-To: <47B32B27.4090406@openvz.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , Peter Zijlstra , YAMAMOTO Takashi , Paul Menage , Lee Schermerhorn , Nick Piggin , "Eric W. Biederman" , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Rik Van Riel , Herbert Poetzl , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org