On Tue, 2022-11-01 at 07:05 -1000, tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 05:03:25PM +0000, Accardi, Kristen C wrote: > > So to be clear, if I have this: > > > > /sys/fs/cgroup/misc.capacity > > some_res 10 > > > > and this: > > /sys/fs/cgroup/test > > > > test.current will never be allowed to exceed 10. > > Yes, but test.max can be whatever. So, the resources themselves can't > be > over-committed. The max limits (ie. the promises) can be. > > Thanks. > This is a bit of a deal breaker for the use of the misc controller for SGX EPC memory - we allow overcommit of the physical EPC memory as we have backing RAM that is used to swap. Would you be amenable to having a flag to ignore the total capacity value and allow for overcommit of the resource? If not I feel like we don't have a choice but to create a new controller.
