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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: righi.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"David Radford" <dradford@bluehost.com>,
	"Marco Innocenti" <m.innocenti@cineca.it>,
	"Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Carl Henrik Lunde" <chlunde@ping.uio.no>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Divyesh Shah" <dpshah@google.com>,
	"Matt Heaton" <matt@bluehost.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Naveen Gupta" <ngupta@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:49:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220982584.23386.219.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C6987D.2050905@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:38 +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> It allows to control how much dirty file pages a cgroup can have at any
> given time. This feature is supposed to be strictly connected to a
> generic cgroup IO controller (see below).

So, this functions similarly to our global dirty ratio?  Is it just
intended to keep a cgroup from wedging itself too hard with too many
dirty pages, just like the global ratio?

-- Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 15:38 Andrea Righi
2008-09-09 16:26 ` kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-09-09 16:39   ` Andrea Righi
2008-09-09 17:49 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-09-10  7:26   ` Andrea Righi

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