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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:08:32 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
Cc:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, agk@...rceware.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, axboe@...nel.dk, baramsori72@...il.com,
	Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@...g.uio.no>,
	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Divyesh Shah <dpshah@...gle.com>,
	eric.rannaud@...il.com, fernando@....ntt.co.jp,
	Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@...inux.co.jp>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Marco Innocenti <m.innocenti@...eca.it>, matt@...ehost.com,
	ngupta@...gle.com, roberto@...it.it,
	Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@...inux.co.jp>,
	Satoshi UCHIDA <s-uchida@...jp.nec.com>,
	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/6] introduce struct res_counter_ratelimit

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:05:24 +0200 Andrea Righi wrote:

> Introduce res_counter_ratelimit as a generic structure to implement
> throttling-based cgroup subsystems.
> 
> [ Only the interfaces needed by the IO controller are implemented right now ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/res_counter.h |   70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/res_counter.c        |  118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> index 0ab55c4..ff677d9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
> +++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> @@ -45,6 +46,38 @@ struct res_counter {
>  	spinlock_t lock;
>  };
>  
> +/* The various policies that can be used for throttling */
> +#define	RATELIMIT_LEAKY_BUCKET	0
> +#define	RATELIMIT_TOKEN_BUCKET	1
> +
> +struct res_counter_ratelimit {
> +	/*
> +	 * the current resource consumption level
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long long usage;
> +	/*
> +	 * the maximal value of the usage from the counter creation
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long long max_usage;
> +	/*
> +	 * the rate limit that cannot be exceeded
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long long limit;
> +	/*
> +	 * the limiting policy / algorithm
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long long policy;
> +	/*
> +	 * timestamp of the last accounted resource request
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long long timestamp;
> +	/*
> +	 * the lock to protect all of the above.
> +	 * the routines below consider this to be IRQ-safe
> +	 */
> +	spinlock_t lock;
> +};

With such nice struct comments, it looks like you should convert them
to kernel-doc for structs.  See Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
for into, or ask me if you need some help with it.

Thanks,
---
~Randy
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