linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Memory usage limit notification feature (v3)

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Message-ID: <6599ad830907131720j4f7e1649y4866d2ddeae862c5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:20:08 -0700
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@...eddedalley.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers Mailing List 
	<containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux memory management list <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Dan Malek <dan@...eddedalley.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Memory usage limit notification feature (v3)

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Vladislav
Buzov<vbuzov@...eddedalley.com> wrote:
>
> The following sequence of patches introduce memory usage limit notification
> capability to the Memory Controller cgroup.
>
> This is v3 of the implementation. The major difference between previous
> version is it is based on the the Resource Counter extension to notify the
> Resource Controller when the resource usage achieves or exceeds a configurable
> threshold.
>
> TODOs:
>
> 1. Another, more generic notification mechanism supporting different  events
>   is preferred to use, rather than creating a dedicated file in the Memory
>   Controller cgroup.

I think that defining the the more generic userspace-API portion of
this TODO should come *prior* to the new feature in this patch, even
if the kernel implementation isn't initially generic.

Paul
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