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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 6f3c598971fc..06eb6d957c83 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. 5.2 stat file -5.2.1 memory.stat file includes following statistics +memory.stat file includes following statistics # per-memory cgroup local status cache - # of bytes of page cache memory. @@ -438,89 +438,6 @@ Note: file_mapped is accounted only when the memory cgroup is owner of page cache.) -5.2.2 memory.vmscan_stat - -memory.vmscan_stat includes statistics information for memory scanning and -freeing, reclaiming. The statistics shows memory scanning information since -memory cgroup creation and can be reset to 0 by writing 0 as - - #echo 0 > ../memory.vmscan_stat - -This file contains following statistics. - -[param]_[file_or_anon]_pages_by_[reason]_[under_heararchy] -[param]_elapsed_ns_by_[reason]_[under_hierarchy] - -For example, - - scanned_file_pages_by_limit indicates the number of scanned - file pages at vmscan. - -Now, 3 parameters are supported - - scanned - the number of pages scanned by vmscan - rotated - the number of pages activated at vmscan - freed - the number of pages freed by vmscan - -If "rotated" is high against scanned/freed, the memcg seems busy. - -Now, 2 reason are supported - - limit - the memory cgroup's limit - system - global memory pressure + softlimit - (global memory pressure not under softlimit is not handled now) - -When under_hierarchy is added in the tail, the number indicates the -total memcg scan of its children and itself. - -elapsed_ns is a elapsed time in nanosecond. This may include sleep time -and not indicates CPU usage. So, please take this as just showing -latency. - -Here is an example. - -# cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat -scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864 -scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629 -scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235 -rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974 -rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968 -rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006 -freed_pages_by_limit 2318492 -freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052 -freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440 -elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101 -scanned_pages_by_system 0 -scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0 -scanned_file_pages_by_system 0 -rotated_pages_by_system 0 -rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0 -rotated_file_pages_by_system 0 -freed_pages_by_system 0 -freed_anon_pages_by_system 0 -freed_file_pages_by_system 0 -elapsed_ns_by_system 0 -scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864 -scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629 -scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235 -rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974 -rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968 -rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006 -freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492 -freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052 -freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440 -elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101 -scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 -elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 - 5.3 swappiness Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. |