On Wed 01-02-17 13:01:24, Anshuman Khandual wrote: [...] > More importantly it also extends the cpuset memory restriction feature > to the logical completion without adding any regressions for the > existing use cases. Then why not do this ? Does it add any overhead ? Maybe it doesn't add any overhead but it just breaks the cgroups expectation that the root cgroup covers the full resource set. No cgroup controller allows to set limits on the root cgroup. So all this looks like an abuse of the interface. I haven't read the full series yet but this particular change looks like a nogo to me. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
