| Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:28:12 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC v3 0/3] vmpressure_fd: Linux VM pressure notifications | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote: >> While the new API is very simple, it is still extensible (i.e. versioned). > > Sorry, I didn't follow previous discussion on this, but could you > explain what's wrong with memory notifications from memcg? > As I can see you can get pretty similar functionality using memory > thresholds on the root cgroup. What's the point?
Why should you be required to use cgroups to get VM pressure events to userspace?
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