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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm 1/2] memcg: add interface to reset limits
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:16:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A26072B.8040207@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090603114908.52c3aed5.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>

Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> Setting mem.limit or memsw.limit to 0 has no meaning
> in actual use(no process can run in such condition).
> 

I wrote a test program that set mem.limit to 0 to test
oom in memcg, and now it is in LTP, though I can modify
it accordingly.

> We don't have interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now,
> so let's reset the mem.limit or memsw.limit to default(unlimited)
> when they are being set to 0.
> 

The idea of having a way to set the limit to unlimited is good,
but how about allow this by writing -1 to mem.limit?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  2:45 [PATCH mmotm 0/2] memcg: changes to *.limit_in_bytes Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-03  2:49 ` [PATCH mmotm 1/2] memcg: add interface to reset limits Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-03  3:54   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-03  5:16   ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-06-03  5:43     ` Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-05 13:22       ` [PATCH mmotm] " Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-05 20:20         ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-03  2:50 ` [PATCH mmotm 2/2] memcg: allow mem.limit bigger than memsw.limit iff unlimited Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-03  3:52   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-03  5:01     ` Daisuke Nishimura
2009-06-03  8:20       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-03  8:46       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-06-04  4:31         ` Daisuke Nishimura

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