Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] mm-controller | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:22:41 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need > individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are > use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the case of > database application using direct IO, backup applications and > streaming applications that does not make good use of pagecache.
I'm aware that some people want this. However we rejected adding a pagecache limit to the kernel proper on grounds that reclaim should do a better job.
And now we're sneaking it in the backdoor.
If we're going to do this, get it in the kernel proper first.
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