[Devel] Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

[Paul Jackson]

Chandra wrote:
> > It seems that cpusets can mimic memory resource groups.  I don't
> 
> I am little confused w.r.t how cpuset can mimic memory resource groups.
> How can cpuset provide support for over commit.

I didn't say "mimic well" ;).

I had no clue cpusets could do overcommit at all, though Paul Menage just
posted a notion of how to mimic overcommit, with his post beginning:

> I have some patches locally that basically let you give out a small
> set of nodes initially to a cpuset, and if memory pressure in
> try_to_free_pages() passes a specified threshold, automatically
> allocate one of the parent cpuset's unused memory nodes to the child
> cpuset, up to specified limit.

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