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memory controller: soft limit interface

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Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits.  Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported.  Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added.  Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.

Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter.  Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here.  Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Balbir Singh
2009-09-23 15:56:36 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a6df63615b
commit 296c81d89f
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *parent)
{
spin_lock_init(&counter->lock);
counter->limit = RESOURCE_MAX;
counter->soft_limit = RESOURCE_MAX;
counter->parent = parent;
}
@@ -101,6 +102,8 @@ res_counter_member(struct res_counter *counter, int member)
return &counter->limit;
case RES_FAILCNT:
return &counter->failcnt;
case RES_SOFT_LIMIT:
return &counter->soft_limit;
};
BUG();