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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>,
	<containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork"
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:50:09 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB2D451.4010607@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111103174809.GA28108@rabbit.intern.cm-ag>

On 11/03/2011 03:48 PM, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2011/11/03 18:26, Glauber Costa<glommer@parallels.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/03/2011 03:16 PM, Max Kellermann wrote:
>>> but is different from my controller.
>>>
>> How so?
>
> Once the "remaining" counter has reached zero, no further forks are
> possible, no matter how many processes are left.  It is a fork
> counter, not a process counter.
>
> Let's say: Frederic's controller counts "things" that exists
> (processes), and my controller counts "verbs" or "ations" (fork()).
>
> Max
That still seems to be up to admin. If no processes are removed from the 
cgroup or included in the cgroup, the only action/verb the counter
is concerned about is to fork. Under this circumstance, both seem 
equivalent from my PoV.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 16:22 [PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork" Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 16:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-11-03 17:16   ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 17:26     ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-03 17:48       ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 17:50         ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2011-11-03 18:30           ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 18:34             ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-03 16:43 ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-03 16:59   ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 17:05     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-11-03 18:21     ` Alan Cox
2011-11-03 18:51       ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 18:56         ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-03 20:08           ` Matt Helsley
2011-11-03 19:03         ` Alan Cox
2011-11-03 19:20           ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-03 19:25             ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-03 20:13               ` Brian K. White
2011-11-03 21:54                 ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-04  3:03                   ` Li Zefan
2011-11-04  4:37                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-04 13:11                     ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-04 13:38                       ` Max Kellermann
2011-11-04 13:59                     ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-03 17:31 ` richard -rw- weinberger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-17 13:31 Max Kellermann
2011-02-17 13:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-17 14:09   ` Max Kellermann
2011-02-18  0:59 ` Paul Menage
2011-02-18  9:26   ` Max Kellermann

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