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Date:	Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:09:09 -0700
From:	Tim Hockin <thockin@...kin.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...il.com>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Max Kellermann <mk@...all.com>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] cgroups: Task counter subsystem v8

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:43:03AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
>> A year later - what ever happened with this?  I want it more than ever
>> for Google's use.
>
> I think the conclusion was "use kmemcg instead".

Pardon my ignorance, but... what?  Use kernel memory limits as a proxy
for process/thread counts?  That sounds terrible - I hope I am
misunderstanding?  This task counter patch had several properties that
mapped very well to what we want.

Is it dead in the water?
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