[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
This is a repost of the patches at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/24/65 The previous post had a misleading subject which ended with a "(". This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
This is a repost of the patches at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/24/65 The previous post had a misleading subject which ended with a (. This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller

Memcontrol patchset (was Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) ()

2007-02-24 Thread Balbir Singh
Hi, My script could not parse the (#2) and posted the patches as subject followed by "( " instead I apologize, Balbir Singh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) (

2007-02-24 Thread Balbir Singh
This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory usage (RSS usage). The memory controller was discussed at length in the RFC posted to lkml

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) (

2007-02-24 Thread Balbir Singh
This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory usage (RSS usage). The memory controller was discussed at length in the RFC posted to lkml

Memcontrol patchset (was Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) ()

2007-02-24 Thread Balbir Singh
Hi, My script could not parse the (#2) and posted the patches as subject followed by ( instead I apologize, Balbir Singh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Magnus Damm wrote: > On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Magnus Damm
On 2/19/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Magnus Damm wrote: > On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) >> posted at >>

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 > > It implements a

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Kirill Korotaev wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On 2/19/07, Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's OK for a container to consume lots of system time during > reclaim, as long as we can account that time to the container involved > (i.e. if it's done during direct reclaim rather than by something like > kswapd). hmm, is it

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Kirill Korotaev
> On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small >>container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the >>system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. >>So it's a point at

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Magnus Damm
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 > > It implements a controller within the

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a point at which

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 > > It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting > memory usage (RSS

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory usage (RSS usage).

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a point at which container

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Magnus Damm
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Kirill Korotaev
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a point at which container

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On 2/19/07, Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's OK for a container to consume lots of system time during reclaim, as long as we can account that time to the container involved (i.e. if it's done during direct reclaim rather than by something like kswapd). hmm, is it ok to

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory

Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Kirill Korotaev wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time. So it's a

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Magnus Damm
On 2/19/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at

Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-19 Thread Balbir Singh
Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Damm wrote: On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:20:19 +0530 Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory usage (RSS usage). The memory controller was discussed at length in the RFC posted to lkml

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

2007-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controller within the containers framework for limiting memory usage (RSS usage). The memory controller was discussed at length in the RFC posted to lkml