Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limit

[Glauber Costa]

On 09/24/2011 01:58 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Glauber Costa<glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  writes:
>
> > This patch uses the "tcp_max_mem" field of the kmem_cgroup to
> > effectively control the amount of kernel memory pinned by a cgroup.
> >
> > We have to make sure that none of the memory pressure thresholds
> > specified in the namespace are bigger than the current cgroup.
>
> I noticed that some other OS known by bash seem to have a rlimit per
> process for this. Would that make sense too? Not sure how difficult
> your infrastructure would be to extend to that.
>
> -Andi
Well, not that hard, I believe.

and given the benchmarks I've run in this iteration, I think it wouldn't
be that much of a performance impact either. We just need to account it 
to a task whenever we account it for a control group. Now that the 
functions where accounting are done are abstracted away, it is even 
quite few places to touch.

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