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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
	hughd@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:25:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427172519.GB26595@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120427172110.GM10579@redhat.com>

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:21:10PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> For non-priviliged users, something along the lines of per session
> cpu autogroup might make sense.  But even then if some IO is submitted
> from that autoblkgroup, kernel can't claim that memory till IO is
> completed.
> 
> So per cgroup number of request will probably be a problem even if
> kenrel managed those completely.

My point was that trying to solve all the policy decisions in kernel
proper is not a very good idea.

> So are you planning to put a patch in kernel to disallow cgroup creation
> for non-priviliged users?

No, I'm not gonna break the current users.  It's just not the
direction I want to take cgroup towards and the current breakages will
remain broken.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 21:59 [PATCHSET] block: implement per-blkg request allocation Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 01/11] blkcg: fix blkg_alloc() failure path Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 14:26   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 14:27     ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 02/11] blkcg: __blkg_lookup_create() doesn't have to fail on radix tree preload failure Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 14:42   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 14:47     ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 21:18   ` [PATCH UPDATED 02/11] blkcg: __blkg_lookup_create() doesn't need radix preload Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 03/11] blkcg: make root blkcg allocation use %GFP_KERNEL Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 21:19   ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 04/11] mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node() Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 05/11] block: drop custom queue draining used by scsi_transport_{iscsi|fc} Tejun Heo
2012-05-02  4:55   ` Mike Christie
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 06/11] block: refactor get_request[_wait]() Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 07/11] block: allocate io_context upfront Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 08/11] blkcg: inline bio_blkcg() and friends Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 09/11] block: add q->nr_rqs[] and move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvpriv Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 10/11] block: prepare for multiple request_lists Tejun Heo
2012-04-26 21:59 ` [PATCH 11/11] blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 14:54   ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-27 15:02     ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 15:40       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 15:45         ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 15:48           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 15:51             ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 15:56               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 16:19                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 16:20                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 17:21                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 17:25                     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-04-27 19:46   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-04-27 20:15     ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 20:21       ` Vivek Goyal

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