linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] cgroups: Resource controller for open files.

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Message-ID: <20140702143300.GB23275@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 10:33:00 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Binder Makin <merimus@...gle.com>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dmj@...gle.com, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cgroups: Resource controller for open files.

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Binder Makin wrote:
> Add a resource controller for limiting the number of open
> file handles.  This allows us to catch misbehaving processes
> and return EMFILE instead of ENOMEM for kernel memory limits.

cc'ing memcg people.  Isn't kmemcg supposed to cover this by
controlling kernel memory usage?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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