From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (d23rh904.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.202]) by ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k9UIILYm256216 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:18:26 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.243]) by sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k9UIBIJ0194350 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:11:28 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9UI3MCe004223 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:03:22 +1100 Message-ID: <45463F70.1010303@in.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:37:44 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@in.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] RFC: Memory Controller References: <20061030103356.GA16833@in.ibm.com> <4545D51A.1060808@in.ibm.com> <4546212B.4010603@openvz.org> <454638D2.7050306@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <454638D2.7050306@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: balbir@in.ibm.com Cc: Pavel Emelianov , vatsa@in.ibm.com, dev@openvz.org, sekharan@us.ibm.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pj@sgi.com, matthltc@us.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, rohitseth@google.com, menage@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Balbir Singh wrote: [snip] > >> I see that everyone agree that we want to see three resources: >> 1. kernel memory >> 2. unreclaimable memory >> 3. reclaimable memory >> if this is right then let's save it somewhere >> (e.g. http://wiki.openvz.org/Containers/UBC_discussion) >> and go on discussing the next question - interface. > > I understand that kernel memory accounting is the first priority for > containers, but accounting kernel memory requires too many changes > to the VM core, hence I was hesitant to put it up as first priority. > > But in general I agree, these are the three important resources for > accounting and control I missed out to mention, I hope you were including the page cache in your definition of reclaimable memory. > > [snip] > -- Balbir Singh, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs -- 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