On Fri 12-09-14 19:26:58, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes works as the system-wide tcp_mem sysctl, > but per memory cgroup. While the existence of the latter is justified > (it prevents the system from becoming unusable due to uncontrolled tcp > buffers growth) the reason why we need such a knob in containers isn't > clear to me.
Parallels was the primary driver for this change. I haven't heard of anybody using the feature other than Parallels. I also remember there was a strong push for this feature before it was merged besides there were some complains at the time. I do not remember details (and I am one half way gone for the weekend now) so I do not have pointers to discussions. I would love to get rid of the code and I am pretty sure that networking people would love this go even more. I didn't plan to provide kmem.tcp.* knobs for the cgroups v2 interface but getting rid of it altogether sounds even better. I am just not sure whether some additional users grown over time. Nevertheless I am really curious. What has changed that Parallels is not interested in kmem.tcp anymore? [...] Anyway, more than welcome Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> In case we happened to grow more users, which I hope hasn't happened, we would need to keep this around at least with the legacy cgroups API. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
