Re: [patch] memcg: fix unit mismatch in memcg oom limit calculation

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 23:08:16 EST


On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:05:21 +0100
Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Adding the number of swap pages to the byte limit of a memory control
> group makes no sense. Convert the pages to bytes before adding them.
>
> The only user of this code is the OOM killer, and the way it is used
> means that the error results in a higher OOM badness value. Since the
> cgroup limit is the same for all tasks in the cgroup, the error should
> have no practical impact at the moment.
>
> But let's not wait for future or changing users to trip over it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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