Re: [PATCH] RSS ulimit enforcement for 2.6.8

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > >  If the current patch isn't effective enough, we may want
> > >  to add more code.  However, we may want to try the simplest
> > >  possible approach first.
> > 
> > How do we know whether it is effective enough?  How do we define this?
> 
> Good question.  I guess our usual answer is "throw it out there
> and wait for somebody to show up with a workload that needs more".
> 
> If you want I could add a bit more code proactively, but how do
> we find out whether it's really needed ?

Good question.  What I'm groping for here is some definition of what we
actually want the feature to _do_.  Once we have that, and have suitably
argued about it, we can then go off and see if the patch actually does it.