netdev - Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] UDP memory usage accounting: accounting unit and variable

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Message-Id: <E1IbSut-00009d-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:22:55 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com (Satoshi OSHIMA)
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, haoki@...hat.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] UDP memory usage accounting: accounting unit and variable

Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com> wrote:
>
> I understand what you pointed out. But I think the accounting
> method I'm proposing is very similar to TCP accounting and per
> socket accounting.
> How do you think of it?

I think allowing Joe user to stop root from using TCP or UDP
isn't much better than having him hog kernel memory.

So let's fix this properly and add per-user limits rather than
system-wide ones.

Cheers,
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