On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:49:17 -0500 "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:17 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:24:17 -0500 > > "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:18 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > > * Steven J. Magnani <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-10-19 07:34:14]: > > > > > + > > > > > +At the present time, only anonymous pages are included in NOMMU memory cgroup > > > > > +accounting. > > > > > > > > What is the reason for tracking just anonymous memory? > > > > > > Tracking more than that is beyond my current scope, and perhaps of > > > limited benefit under an assumption that NOMMU systems don't usually > > > work with large files. The limitations of the implementation are > > > documented, so hopefully anyone who needs more functionality will know > > > that they need to implement it. > > > > > > > What happens at reaching limit ? memory can be reclaimed ? > > I'm not quite sure what you're asking. In my usage, the OOM-killer gets > invoked and the 'runaway' dosfsck process gets terminated; at that point > all its memory is freed. > Hmm. then, most of memcg codes are of no use for NOMMU. I myself can't maintain NOMMU kernel. So, please test every -rc1 when this patch merged. OK ? Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>