Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] cgroups: Start a basic rlimit subsystem

[Li Zefan]

Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> This starts a basic rlimit cgroup subsystem with only the
> equivalent of RLIMIT_NPROC yet. This can be useful to limit
> the global effects of a local fork bomb for example (local
> in term of a cgroup).
> 
> The thing is further expandable to host more general resource
> limitations in the scope of a cgroup.
> 

As this subsystem is named "rlimit", I think we should have a bigger
picture about how this subsystem will be.

For example, which of other RLIMIT_XXX can be make cgroup-aware in
a meaningful way and which can't.

Another issue is, we can apply the limit of RLIMIT_NPROC as the sum
of the tasks' limit in a cgroup, but some other RLIMIT_XXX can't
work in this way. Take RLIMIT_NICE for example, we can apply this
limit to each of the tasks in the cgroup.
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