On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 18:17:17 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So the text you've removed says not to select kmem support "unless for > > development purposes." Do we now believe that this feature is ready for > > use in a production setting? If the answer is "yes," I'd be happy to > > take this through the docs tree. > > I added this warning because of the following issues, which made > memcg/kmem useless: > > - no reclaim support > - lack of memcg slab caches auto destruction > - several obvious races/bugs > > They are all fixed now, so I think the answer is yes, it can be used in > production. There might be bugs that I am not aware of, of course, but > It must be safe to compile it in anyway, because memcg/kmem accounting > is disabled by default and must be enabled explicitly at runtime by > writing to cgroup/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes. So I believe you, but I'm still a bit nervous about taking this one because I can't really judge whether we should be advising people to turn on this feature at this point or not. A well-placed ack or two would help there; otherwise, Andrew, if you think it makes sense, you can just grab it :) Thanks, jon -- 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
