> If the resource isn't and the main goal is preventing runaway > hogs, it'll be able to do that but is that the goal here? For this to > be actually useful for performance contended cases, it'd need higher > level abstractions. >
Resource run away by application can lead to (a) kernel and (b) other applications left out with no resources situation. Both the problems are the target of this patch set by accounting via cgroup. Performance contention can be resolved with higher level user space, which will tune it. Threshold and fail counters are on the way in follow on patch. > Thanks. > > -- > tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
