From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758109AbYILXNS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755650AbYILXNH (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42607 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754836AbYILXNG (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:10:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: righi.andrea@gmail.com Cc: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, menage@google.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, chlunde@ping.uio.no, dpshah@google.com, eric.rannaud@gmail.com, fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp, agk@sourceware.org, m.innocenti@cineca.it, s-uchida@ap.jp.nec.com, ryov@valinux.co.jp, matt@bluehost.com, dradford@bluehost.com, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mrubin@google.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm 0/2] memcg: per cgroup dirty_ratio Message-Id: <20080912161050.5b6b4065.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48CAF583.8060406@gmail.com> References: <1221232192-13553-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com> <20080912131816.e0cfac7a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <48CAF583.8060406@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:04:35 +0200 Andrea Righi wrote: > BTW why not use a simple dirty-ratio-in-bytes? s/ratio/amount/ ;) No particular reason - I haven't really thought about it frankly. A "ratio" might make more sense in a containerised setup, particularly if the container can be resized on the fly.