On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:28:14PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 06/27/2012 04:29 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:29:04PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> On 06/27/2012 01:55 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>>> I can't speak for everybody here, but AFAIK, tracking the stack through > >>>> the memory it used, therefore using my proposed kmem controller, was an > >>>> idea that good quite a bit of traction with the memcg/memory people. > >>>> So here you have something that people already asked a lot for, in a > >>>> shape and interface that seem to be acceptable. > >>> > >>> mm, maybe. Kernel developers tend to look at code from the point of > >>> view "does it work as designed", "is it clean", "is it efficient", "do > >>> I understand it", etc. We often forget to step back and really > >>> consider whether or not it should be merged at all. > >>> > >>> I mean, unless the code is an explicit simplification, we should have > >>> a very strong bias towards "don't merge". > >> > >> Well, simplifications are welcome - this series itself was > >> simplified beyond what I thought initially possible through the > >> valuable comments > >> of other people. > >> > >> But of course, this adds more complexity to the kernel as a whole. > >> And this is true to every single new feature we may add, now or in > >> the > >> future. > >> > >> What I can tell you about this particular one, is that the justification > >> for it doesn't come out of nowhere, but from a rather real use case that > >> we support and maintain in OpenVZ and our line of products for years. > > > > Right and we really need a solution to protect against forkbombs in LXC. > Small correction: In containers. LXC is not the only one out there =p Sure. I was just speaking for the specific project I'm working on :) But I'm definetly interested in solutions that work for everyone in containers in general. And if Openvz is also interested in forkbombs protection that's even better. -- 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>