linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:01:31 +0200
From:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Havoc Pennington <hp@...ox.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Hi

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> Whose memcg does the pool use?

The pool-owner's (i.e., the receiver's).

> If it's the receiver's, and if the
> receiver can configure a memcg, then it seems that even a single
> receiver could probably cause the sender to block for an unlimited
> amount of time.

How? Which of those calls can block? I don't see how that can happen.

Thanks
David
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