From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx126.postini.com [74.125.245.126]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0B786B002B for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:30:23 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 14/14] Add documentation about the kmem controller In-Reply-To: <507DAF56.9010403@parallels.com> Message-ID: <0000013a6b0e332a-81258f37-814f-4b7e-8b95-193ecb9d7b9d-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1350382611-20579-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1350382611-20579-15-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <0000013a6ad26c73-d043cf97-c44a-45c1-9cae-0a962e93a005-000000@email.amazonses.com> <507DAF56.9010403@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Pekka Enberg , Suleiman Souhlal On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > A limitation of kernel memory use would be good, for example, to prevent > abuse from non-trusted containers in a high density, shared, container > environment. But that would be against intentional abuse by someone who has code that causes the kernel to use a lot of memory on its behalf. We already need protection from that without memcg. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org