linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm 0/2] memcg: per cgroup dirty

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:10:50 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	righi.andrea@...il.com
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm 0/2] memcg: per cgroup dirty_ratio

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:04:35 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com> wrote:

> BTW why not use a simple dirty-ratio-in-bytes?

s/ratio/amount/  ;)

No particular reason - I haven't really thought about it frankly.

A "ratio" might make more sense in a containerised setup, particularly
if the container can be resized on the fly.
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