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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>,
	menage@google.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	xemul@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] memcg: VM overcommit accounting and handling
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:43:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484E0D73.6010609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610091439.04061da9.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:32:58 +0200
> Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Provide distinct cgroup VM overcommit accounting and handling using the memory
>> resource controller.
>>
> 
> Could you explain the benefits of this even when we have memrlimit controller ?
> (If unsure, see 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 and search memrlimit controller.)
> 
> And this kind of virtual-address-handling things should be implemented on
> memrlimit controller (means not on memory-resource-controller.).
> It seems this patch doesn't need to handle page_group.
> 
> Considering hierarchy, putting several kinds of features on one controller is
> not good, I think. Balbir, how do you think ?
> 

I would tend to agree. With the memrlimit controller, can't we do this in user
space now? Figure out the overcommit value and based on that setup the memrlimit?


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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-09 23:32 [RFC PATCH 0/5] memcg: VM overcommit accounting and handling Andrea Righi
2008-06-10  0:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-06-10  5:13   ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2008-06-10  7:52     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-06-10  8:30       ` Andrea Righi

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