Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:49:16 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
       Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory
 controller in Kconfig
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:45:13 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > But for computers, limits is an expected and understood term, and for
> > filesystems it's quotas.  So in this case, I *still* think you should
> > be using the term "Memory Quota Controller" instead.  It just makes it
> > clearer to a larger audience what you mean.
> > 
> 
> Memory Quota sounds very confusing to me. Usually a quota implies limits, but in
> a true framework, one can also implement guarantees and shares.
> 
This "cgroup memory contoller" is called as "Memory Resource Contoller"
in my office ;)

How about Memory Resouce Contoller ?


-Kame

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