Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 21:22:40 +0300 | | From | Avi Kivity <> | | Subject | Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/4] Add memrlimit controller documentation (v4) | |
Balbir Singh wrote:
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> +Advantages of providing this feature
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> +1. Control over virtual address space allows for a cgroup to fail gracefully
> + i.e., via a malloc or mmap failure as compared to OOM kill when no
> + pages can be reclaimed.
>
Do you mean by this, limiting the number of pagetable pages (that are
pinned in memory), this preventing oom by a cgroup that instantiates
many pagetables?
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