From: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
To: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>,
minchan@kernel.org, riel@redhat.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:34:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFPAmTSR_Lvsi2+Uid3a9RQK5bBnN3vD_cje6o02f-gBusCJHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313080535.GA5243@gmail.com>
>
> Hi Kautuk,
>
> IMHO, running application with root privilege is too dangerous. We
> should avoid it.
>
I agree, but that's not my point.
All I'm saying is that we probably don't want to give normal
unprivileged usermode apps
the capability to set the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE as anyone can then
write an application
that hogs memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory reclaim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-08 7:34 Control page reclaim granularity Zheng Liu
2012-03-08 8:39 ` Greg Thelen
2012-03-08 16:13 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-08 16:32 ` Zhu Yanhai
2012-03-14 7:19 ` Greg Thelen
2012-03-08 9:35 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-08 16:54 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-12 0:28 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-12 2:06 ` Fwd: " Zheng Liu
2012-03-12 5:19 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-12 6:20 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-12 8:14 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-12 13:42 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-12 14:18 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-13 2:48 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-13 4:37 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-13 5:00 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-13 6:30 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-13 6:48 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-13 7:21 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-13 7:43 ` Kautuk Consul
2012-03-13 7:47 ` Kautuk Consul
2012-03-13 8:05 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-13 8:04 ` Kautuk Consul [this message]
2012-03-13 8:08 ` Kautuk Consul
2012-03-13 8:28 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-13 8:36 ` Kautuk Consul
2012-03-13 9:03 ` Kautuk Consul
2012-03-12 15:15 ` Zheng Liu
2012-03-13 2:51 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-12 14:55 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-13 2:57 ` Minchan Kim
2012-03-13 14:57 ` Rik van Riel
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