Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...>, Paul Menage <menage@...>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 4:10 am

> -memrlimit-setup-the-memrlimit-controller-cgroup-files-convert-res_counter_write-to-be-a-cgroups-write_string-handler-memrlimitcgroup.patch

Andrew,

Please don't do so. We did discuss this and while Paul and Hugh have
opposed the patches, there is no alternative to memory overcommit
handling for cgroups. Claiming that no one supports overcommit is not
a valid argument. Apache (of what I've seen can decide rlimits for
each of it's children). Without the overcommit feature, a cgroup would
be prone to either excessive swapping for OOM (if badly configured). A
friendly feature that allows us to control and fail allocations is
much nicer.

I've resolved most of the issues reported, except for the last one by
Hugh. The infrastructure also allows me to build a mlock controller. I
am just back from Canada, I hope to get cracking at the problem soon.

Balbir
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2.6.27-rc1-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Thu Jul 31, 3:03 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: unable to boot with gcov on x86_64, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Tue Aug 5, 4:26 pm)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: unable to boot with gcov on x86_64, Peter Oberparleiter, (Wed Aug 6, 3:23 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: unable to boot with gcov on x86_64, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Tue Aug 5, 4:29 pm)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: sparc64 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in..., Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Aug 2, 11:17 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: rmmod ide-cd_mod oops, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Aug 2, 5:23 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: rmmod ide-cd_mod oops, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sat Aug 2, 12:15 pm)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: rmmod ide-cd_mod oops, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Aug 2, 7:25 pm)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: rmmod ide-cd_mod oops, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sun Aug 3, 10:41 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1: rmmod ide-cd_mod oops, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sun Aug 3, 11:45 am)
Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 - allyesconfig build fail..., Peter 1 Oberparleiter, (Fri Aug 1, 11:44 am)
Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 - allyesconfig build fail..., Peter 1 Oberparleiter, (Fri Aug 1, 11:40 am)
2.6.27-rc1-mm1: busyloop time-schedule, Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu Jul 31, 8:23 am)
Re: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1, Balbir Singh, (Thu Jul 31, 4:10 am)