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

[Balbir Singh]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

rlimit per process for tcp usage? Interesting, that reminds me, we
need to revisit rlimit (RSS) at some point

Balbir Singh
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