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Message-ID: <1524673273.8257.2.camel@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:21:13 +0200
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ferry Toth <ftoth@...fort.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DOS by unprivileged user
On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 15:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I think memory allocation and io waits can't be decoupled from
> > > scheduling as they are now.
> >
> > The scheduler is not decoupled from either, it is intimately involved
> > in both. However, none of the decision making smarts for either reside
> > in the scheduler, nor should they.
>
> It belongs in both.
If mm decision making belongs within the process scheduler, it follows
that IO requests, dirty page writeback etc. do as well. Nope, I don't
think we want to create a squid-uler, with tentacles extending all over
the dang kernel.
The thrashing problem could use some attention, but we'll have to agree
to disagree about the scheduler growing mm, io (etc) smarts.
-Mike
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