On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:25:16PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives > the cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears. At the same > time it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically > store IDs in the wild. Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain > frequent but small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page > cache, we quickly run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs. > Creating a new cgroup fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, > or even no user-visible cgroups in existence.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Thanks. -- tejun
