From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:18:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188425894.28903.140.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D5ED5C.9030405@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 03:34 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> I've thought about this before. The problem is that a user could
> set his limit to 10000 bytes, but would then see the usage and
> limit round to the closest page boundary. This can be confusing
> to a user.
True, but we're lying if we allow a user to set their limit there,
because we can't actually enforce a limit at 8,192 bytes vs 10,000.
They're the same limit as far as the kernel is concerned.
Why not just -EINVAL if the value isn't page-aligned? There are plenty
of interfaces in the kernel that require userspace to know the page
size, so this shouldn't be too difficult.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 11:10 Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 15:28 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 16:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 16:17 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 18:45 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:04 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 22:18 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-08-29 22:20 ` Paul Menage
2007-08-29 22:25 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:37 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-30 5:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-08-30 9:13 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 22:27 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-29 22:44 ` Balbir Singh
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