Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:49:13 +0400 | From | Kirill Korotaev <> | Subject | Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH] BC: resource beancounters (v4) (added user memory) |
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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.
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> 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...
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