Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages

Dave Hansen
2008-09-09T17:51:14Z

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:38 +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> It allows to control how much dirty file pages a cgroup can have at any
> given time. This feature is supposed to be strictly connected to a
> generic cgroup IO controller (see below).

So, this functions similarly to our global dirty ratio? Is it just
intended to keep a cgroup from wedging itself too hard with too many
dirty pages, just like the global ratio?

-- Dave