Re: per-thread rusage

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> I just so happen to think we should implement a variety of CPU resource
>> limits beyond what we now do, so this, too, interests me.
> 
> Agreed - and make them all 64bit while doing the cleanup. One thing
> several Unixen have we don't for 32bi boxes is a proper set of 64bit
> resource handling for memory/file etc.
> 
> We could also start using the CPU facilities to enforce some of
> the really interesting real time process ones (like main memory
> bandwidth) that at the moment we have no control over and can lead to
> very unfair behaviour.
> 
> Alan

Hi, Alan,

Thanks for bringing this up. There are a couple of patches posted to
lkml for RSS control (unmapped page cache controller under development).

http://lwn.net/Articles/223829/

and the new enhanced verison by Pavel at

http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/6456480.html

We would appreciate any feedback to help us move the work forward and
make the code ready for acceptance

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