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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2012 18:15:42 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, <devel@...nvz.org>,
	<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Kir Kolyshkin <kir@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: Fork bomb limitation in memcg WAS: Re: [PATCH 00/11] kmem controller
 for memcg: stripped down version

On 08/07/2012 05:59 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 02:25 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:01:23 +0400
>> Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>> OK, that all sounds convincing ;) Please summarise and capture this
>> discussion in the [patch 0/n] changelog so we (or others) don't have to
>> go through this all again.  And let's remember this in the next
>> patchset!
>>
>>> Last, but not least, note that it is totally within my interests to
>>> merge the slab tracking as fast as we can. it'll be a matter of going
>>> back to it, and agreeing in the final form.
>>
>> Yes, I'd very much like to have the whole slab implementation in a
>> reasonably mature state before proceeding too far with this base
>> patchset.
>>
> So, that was posted separately as well.
> 
> Although there is a thing to fix here and there - all of them I am
> working on already - I believe that to be mature enough.
> 
> Do you have any comments on that? Would you be willing to take this
> first part (modified with the comments on this thread itself) and let it
> start sitting in the tree?
> 

In the mean time, for any interested parties, I've set up a tree at:

git://github.com/glommer/linux.git

branches kmemcg-slab and kmemcg-stack

Intended to be a throw-away tree.




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