linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/6] introduce struct res_counter

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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:38:17 +0200
From:	Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	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>,
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	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, randy.dunlap@...cle.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

Balbir Singh wrote:
> Paul Menage wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com> wrote:
>>>> Could you not either:
>>>>
>>>> - include these two extra fields in res_counter?
>>>> - include res_counter as the first field in a res_counter_ratelimit?
>>> The second solution would save some space if the "ratelimit" part is not used.
>> Having a "policy" field in res_counter seems like it might be reusable
>> as something for other non-ratelimited res_counters. And even if it's
>> not, the memory overhead of a couple of extra fields in a res_counter
>> is trivial compared to the overhead of resource isolation anyway.
>>
>> So my first approach to this would be just extend res_counter, and
>> then split them apart later if it turns out that they really do need
>> mutually incompatible code/handlers.
> 
> Yes! I agree

Good! I'll go for this.

Thanks,
-Andrea
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