Re: [PATCH v5 14/14] Add documentation about the kmem controller

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 15:30:17 EST


On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> A limitation of kernel memory use would be good, for example, to prevent
> abuse from non-trusted containers in a high density, shared, container
> environment.

But that would be against intentional abuse by someone who has code that
causes the kernel to use a lot of memory on its behalf. We already need
protection from that without memcg.

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