[PATCH 00/10] cgroups: Task counter subsystem v8

Tim Hockin thockin at hockin.org
Mon Apr 1 20:09:09 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:43:03AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
>> A year later - what ever happened with this?  I want it more than ever
>> for Google's use.
>
> I think the conclusion was "use kmemcg instead".

Pardon my ignorance, but... what?  Use kernel memory limits as a proxy
for process/thread counts?  That sounds terrible - I hope I am
misunderstanding?  This task counter patch had several properties that
mapped very well to what we want.

Is it dead in the water?


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