Re: [PATCH mmotm 1/2] memcg: add interface to reset limits

From: Li Zefan
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 01:15:26 EST


Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> Setting mem.limit or memsw.limit to 0 has no meaning
> in actual use(no process can run in such condition).
>

I wrote a test program that set mem.limit to 0 to test
oom in memcg, and now it is in LTP, though I can modify
it accordingly.

> We don't have interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now,
> so let's reset the mem.limit or memsw.limit to default(unlimited)
> when they are being set to 0.
>

The idea of having a way to set the limit to unlimited is good,
but how about allow this by writing -1 to mem.limit?


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