Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 21:22:40 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/4] Add memrlimit controller documentation (v4) |
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Balbir Singh wrote: > + > +Advantages of providing this feature > + > +1. Control over virtual address space allows for a cgroup to fail gracefully > + i.e., via a malloc or mmap failure as compared to OOM kill when no > + pages can be reclaimed. >
Do you mean by this, limiting the number of pagetable pages (that are pinned in memory), this preventing oom by a cgroup that instantiates many pagetables?
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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