linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Memory usage limit notification feature (v3)

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:31:31 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@...eddedalley.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers Mailing List 
	<containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux memory management list <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Dan Malek <dan@...eddedalley.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Memory usage limit notification feature (v3)

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Vladislav
> Buzov<vbuzov@...eddedalley.com> wrote:
> >
> > The following sequence of patches introduce memory usage limit notification
> > capability to the Memory Controller cgroup.
> >
> > This is v3 of the implementation. The major difference between previous
> > version is it is based on the the Resource Counter extension to notify the
> > Resource Controller when the resource usage achieves or exceeds a configurable
> > threshold.
> >
> > TODOs:
> >
> > 1. Another, more generic notification mechanism supporting different  events
> >   is preferred to use, rather than creating a dedicated file in the Memory
> >   Controller cgroup.
> 
> I think that defining the the more generic userspace-API portion of
> this TODO should come *prior* to the new feature in this patch, even
> if the kernel implementation isn't initially generic.

I fully agree this ;-)



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