Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759777Ab3DAUJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:09:32 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f173.google.com ([209.85.216.173]:57414 "EHLO mail-qc0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756699Ab3DAUJa (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:09:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130401184617.GB31435@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1328067470-5980-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20130401184617.GB31435@htj.dyndns.org> From: Tim Hockin Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:09:09 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kNG_TNgIE4MerVPq4bvcbrzOTV8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] cgroups: Task counter subsystem v8 To: Tejun Heo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , Li Zefan , LKML , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Paul Menage , Johannes Weiner , Aditya Kali , Oleg Nesterov , Containers , Glauber Costa , Cgroups , Daniel J Walsh , "Daniel P. Berrange" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Max Kellermann , Mandeep Singh Baines Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 18 On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:43:03AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: >> A year later - what ever happened with this? I want it more than ever >> for Google's use. > > I think the conclusion was "use kmemcg instead". Pardon my ignorance, but... what? Use kernel memory limits as a proxy for process/thread counts? That sounds terrible - I hope I am misunderstanding? This task counter patch had several properties that mapped very well to what we want. Is it dead in the water? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/