Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

From: Paul Menage
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 12:32:23 EST


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I thought about it, but it did not work out all that well. The reason being,
> that the memory controller is called in from places besides cgroup.
> mem_cgroup_charge_common() for example is called from several places in mm.
> Calling into cgroups to check, enabled/disabled did not seem right.

You wouldn't need to call into cgroups - if it's a flag in the subsys
object (which is defined in memcontrol.c) you'd just say

if (mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled) {
...
}

I'll send out a prototype for comment.

Paul
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