From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m89Hogdj004304 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:50:42 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id m89HoWMt027190 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:50:32 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m89HoQKw031390 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:50:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: limit the amount of dirty file pages From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <48C6987D.2050905@gmail.com> References: <48C6987D.2050905@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:49:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1220982584.23386.219.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: righi.andrea@gmail.com Cc: Balbir Singh , Paul Menage , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , David Radford , Marco Innocenti , Fernando Luis =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1zquez?= Cao , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, LKML , Carl Henrik Lunde , linux-mm@kvack.org, Divyesh Shah , Matt Heaton , Andrew Morton , Naveen Gupta List-ID: 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 -- 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