On Tue 28-01-14 17:00:19, Dermot McGahon wrote: > Kernel version is 2.6.32 stock kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. > > Is there anyone on this list with good knowledge of how the memory subsystem > behaves? posting to linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx would give you higher chances to get a reply. > On 27 January 2014 16:36, Dermot McGahon <dmcgahon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is it possible to apply cgroup memory subsystem controls to threads > > created with pthread_create() / clone or only tasks that have been > > created using fork and exec? Memory cgroup controller charges memory per address space which is shared between threads. [...] > > Is that expected? I realise that the subsystems are all different > > but what is confusing us slightly is that we have previously used > > the CPU subsystem to set cpu_shares and adding LWP / TID's to > > individual cgroups worked just fine for that Please note that this will most probably change in the future because all the containers will be per-task rather than per-thread. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
