From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx110.postini.com [74.125.245.110]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0FB56B004A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:33:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F5F847C.3060505@parallels.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:31:40 +0400 From: Glauber Costa MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] memcg: Kernel memory accounting infrastructure. References: <1331325556-16447-1-git-send-email-ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> <1331325556-16447-3-git-send-email-ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> <4F5C5E54.2020408@parallels.com> <20120313152446.28b0d696.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4F5F236A.1070609@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Thelen Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Suleiman Souhlal , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, suleiman@google.com, penberg@kernel.org, cl@linux.com, yinghan@google.com, hughd@google.com, peterz@infradead.org, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mgorman@suse.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com On 03/13/2012 09:00 PM, Greg Thelen wrote: > Glauber Costa writes: >> 2) For the kernel itself, we are mostly concerned that a malicious container may >> pin into memory big amounts of kernel memory which is, ultimately, >> unreclaimable. In particular, with overcommit allowed scenarios, you can fill >> the whole physical memory (or at least a significant part) with those objects, >> well beyond your softlimit allowance, making the creation of further containers >> impossible. >> With user memory, you can reclaim the cgroup back to its place. With kernel >> memory, you can't. > > In overcommit situations the page allocator starts failing even though > memcg page can charge pages. If you overcommit mem+swap, yes. If you overcommit mem, no: reclaim happens first. And we don't have that option with pinned kernel memory. Of course you *can* run your system without swap, but the whole thing exists exactly because there is a large enough # of ppl who wants to be able to overcommit their physical memory, without failing allocations. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org