Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946653AbWKAHHy (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:07:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946654AbWKAHHx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:07:53 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:7978 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946653AbWKAHHw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:07:52 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=DuFgoV2eaiL+mn2PLzec8rhr7ASEb5+yYdzX83cKcIP/lsp/yN5BDL4OzzOdOZbKj YxbNkR3HBYTYRz0BoCP8A== Message-ID: <6599ad830610312307i549f5a51h3b7a1744a14919f5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:07:40 -0800 From: "Paul Menage" To: balbir@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] RFC: Memory Controller Cc: dev@openvz.org, vatsa@in.ibm.com, sekharan@us.ibm.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pj@sgi.com, matthltc@us.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, rohitseth@google.com In-Reply-To: <4548472A.50608@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061030103356.GA16833@in.ibm.com> <4545D51A.1060808@in.ibm.com> <6599ad830610300304l58e235f7td54ef8744e462a55@mail.gmail.com> <4545FDCD.3080107@in.ibm.com> <6599ad830610301014l1bf78ce8q998229483d055a90@mail.gmail.com> <454782D2.3040208@in.ibm.com> <6599ad830610310922p61913cdaqb441a2cb718420a9@mail.gmail.com> <4548472A.50608@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 17 On 10/31/06, Balbir Singh wrote: > > I thought this would be hard to do in general, but with a page --> > container mapping that will come as a result of the memory controller, > will it still be that hard? I meant that it's pretty much impossible with the current APIs provided by the kernel. That's why one of the most useful things that a memory controller can provide is accounting and limiting of page cache usage. Paul - 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/