linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] add nproc cgroup subsystem

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Message-ID: <54F07525.4050100@nod.at>
Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:46:13 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
CC:	lizefan@...wei.com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] add nproc cgroup subsystem

Tejun,

Am 27.02.2015 um 12:49 schrieb Tejun Heo:
> This isn't a proper resource to control.  kmemcg just grew proper
> reclaim support and will be useable to control kernel side of memory
> consumption.

just to make sure that I understand the big picture.
The plan is to limit kernel memory per cgroup such that fork bombs and
stuff cannot harm other groups of processes?

Thanks,
//richard
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