On 03/11/2011 01:43 PM, Greg Thelen wrote:

Add cgroupfs interface to memcg dirty page limits:
   Direct write-out is controlled with:
   - memory.dirty_ratio
   - memory.dirty_limit_in_bytes

   Background write-out is controlled with:
   - memory.dirty_background_ratio
   - memory.dirty_background_limit_bytes

What's the overlap, if any, with the current memory limits controlled by 
`memory.limit_in_bytes` and the above `memory.dirty_limit_in_bytes`? If 
I want to fairly balance memory between two cgroups be one a dirty page 
antagonist (dd) and the other an anonymous page (memcache), do I just 
set `memory.limit_in_bytes`? Does this patch simply provide a more 
granular level of control of the dirty limits?


Thanks,

Mike

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