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> <snip> > >>Reserving in advance means that sometimes you won't be able to start a >>new group without taking back some of reserved pages. This is ... strange. > > > I do not see it strange. At the time of creation, user sees the failure > (that there isn't enough resource to provide the required/requested > guarantee) and can act accordingly. > > BTW, VMware does it this way. This is not true at least for ESX server. It overcommits memory and does dirty tricks like balooning to free memory then. [...] > We would need at least: > - BC should be created/deleted explicitly by the user > - cleaner interface for controller writers why do you bother for the last too much? The number of controlers is quite limited... Kirill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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