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SubjectRe: [-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v8)
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:35:44 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> 1. Add mm->owner change callbacks using cgroups
>
> ...
>
> +config MM_OWNER
> + bool "Enable ownership of mm structure"
> + help
> + This option enables mm_struct's to have an owner. The advantage
> + of this approach is that it allows for several independent memory
> + based cgroup controllers to co-exist independently without too
> + much space overhead
> +
> + This feature adds fork/exit overhead. So enable this only if
> + you need resource controllers

Do we really want to offer this option to people? It's rather a low-level
thing and it's likely to cause more confusion than it's worth. Remember
that most kernels get to our users via kernel vendors - to what will they
be setting this config option?

> config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
> depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
> + select MM_OWNER

Presumably they'll always be setting it to "y" if they are enabling cgroups
at all.

> --- linux-2.6.25-rc8/kernel/cgroup.c~memory-controller-add-mm-owner 2008-04-03 22:43:27.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-balbir/kernel/cgroup.c 2008-04-03 22:43:27.000000000 +0530
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static int root_count;
> * be called.
> */
> static int need_forkexit_callback;
> +static int need_mm_owner_callback;

I suppose these should be __read_mostly.



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