From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.17 2/2] Subject: cgroup: Limit event
 generation frequency
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:35:14 -0700
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:47:53PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> ".events" files generate file modified event to notify userland of
> possible new events.  Some of the events can be quite bursty
> (e.g. memory high event) and generating notification each time is
> costly and pointless.
> 
> This patch implements a event rate limit mechanism.  If a new
> notification is requested before 10ms has passed since the previous
> notification, the new notification is delayed till then.
> 
> As this only delays from the second notification on in a given close
> cluster of notifications, userland reactions to notifications
> shouldn't be delayed at all in most cases while avoiding notification
> storms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Applied 1-2 to cgroup/for-4.18.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun