Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:32:01AM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think what you want is just a way to specify absolute limits using > > percentages of what's available at the time of configuration - > > e.g. being able to say "allow upto 30% of what's available in the > > parent". > > Yes. I am concerned about how to configure < 1% value to avoid > floating point math in kernel as thats discouraged. > Configuring in range of 1 to 100% for a given resource limits to only > 100 or less cgroup instances which I think is not desired. Heh, we can go for per-mil and use %0 as the suffix if absolutely necessary but is this a real issue? > > If so, the simplest way would be simply updating the > > existing knobs to accept % inputs in addition to absolute values on > > writes. > > I was not sure to overload rdma.max file for accepting % inputs as > thats not done in other cgroups. So I was thinking more of weights > interface which avoids floating point problem and also allows much > wider configuration range. I think it's a lot more consistent to implement all absoulte limits through max. weight is for actual proportional control which this isn't. It's just a fancy way of specifying absolute limits. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
