linux-kernel - Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v4) (added user memory)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:22:32 -0700
From:	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>
To:	vatsa@...ibm.com
Cc:	sekharan@...ibm.com, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net>, balbir@...ibm.com,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrey Savochkin <saw@...ru>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...l.ru>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v4) (added
	user	memory)

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 16:14 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:10:31PM -0700, Rohit Seth wrote:
> > It seems that a single notion of limit should suffice, and that limit
> > should more be treated as something beyond which that resource
> > consumption in the container will be throttled/not_allowed.
> 
> The big question is : are containers/RG allowed to use *upto* their
> limit always? In other words, will you typically setup limits such that
> sum of all limits = max resource capacity? 
> 

If a user is really interested in ensuring that all scheduled jobs (or
containers) get what they have asked for (guarantees) then making the
sum of all container limits equal to total system limit is the right
thing to do.

> If it is setup like that, then what you are considering as limit is
> actually guar no?
> 
Right.  And if we do it like this then it is up to sysadmin to configure
the thing right without adding additional logic in kernel.

-rohit


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