From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.234]) by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4FIdObL024418 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 04:39:24 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m4FIdc744067374 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 04:39:42 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m4FIdnNl031282 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 04:39:50 +1000 Message-ID: <482C8353.8080008@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:09:15 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/4] Add memrlimit controller documentation (v4) References: <20080514130904.24440.23486.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080514130915.24440.56106.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <482C7F70.2020102@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <482C7F70.2020102@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Avi Kivity Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Sudhir Kumar , YAMAMOTO Takashi , Paul Menage , lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Emelianov , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > Balbir Singh wrote: >> + >> +Advantages of providing this feature >> + >> +1. Control over virtual address space allows for a cgroup to fail >> gracefully >> + i.e., via a malloc or mmap failure as compared to OOM kill when no >> + pages can be reclaimed. >> > > Do you mean by this, limiting the number of pagetable pages (that are > pinned in memory), this preventing oom by a cgroup that instantiates > many pagetables? > > This is not for page tables (that is in the long term TODO list). This is more for user space calls to mmap(), malloc() or anything that causes the total virtual memory of the process to go up (in our case cgroups). The motivation is similar to the motivations of RLIMIT_AS. -- 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