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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-02-24 02:24:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-24 04:13:25 +0300 |
| commit | 2324c5dd47233859cd7ba6272d0601f26ce60dcd (patch) | |
| tree | 5be4f4064ce39b82bb46d9ac9bd4774a8456ad7f /Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |
| parent | bc231d2a048010d5e0b49ac7fddbfa822fc41109 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2324c5dd47233859cd7ba6272d0601f26ce60dcd.tar.xz | |
memcgroup: fix and update documentation
- remove trailing " Bytes"s in the demonstration
- remove section 4.4 (feature control_type has been removed)
- fix reference section
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/controllers/memory.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index b5bbea92a61a..6015347b41e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -170,14 +170,14 @@ NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, mega or gigabytes. # cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes -4194304 Bytes +4194304 NOTE: The interface has now changed to display the usage in bytes instead of pages We can check the usage: # cat /cgroups/0/memory.usage_in_bytes -1216512 Bytes +1216512 A successful write to this file does not guarantee a successful set of this limit to the value written into the file. This can be due to a @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel. # echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes # cat memory.limit_in_bytes -4096 Bytes +4096 The memory.failcnt field gives the number of times that the cgroup limit was exceeded. @@ -233,13 +233,6 @@ cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all tasks have migrated away from it. Such charges are automatically dropped at rmdir() if there are no tasks. -4.4 Choosing what to account -- Page Cache (unmapped) vs RSS (mapped)? - -The type of memory accounted by the cgroup can be limited to just -mapped pages by writing "1" to memory.control_type field - -echo -n 1 > memory.control_type - 5. TODO 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller) @@ -262,18 +255,19 @@ References 3. Emelianov, Pavel. Resource controllers based on process cgroups http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/6/198 4. Emelianov, Pavel. RSS controller based on process cgroups (v2) - http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/9/74 + http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/9/78 5. Emelianov, Pavel. RSS controller based on process cgroups (v3) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/30/244 6. Menage, Paul. Control Groups v10, http://lwn.net/Articles/236032/ 7. Vaidyanathan, Srinivasan, Control Groups: Pagecache accounting and control subsystem (v3), http://lwn.net/Articles/235534/ -8. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller V2 test results (lmbench), +8. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller v2 test results (lmbench), http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/232 -9. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller V2 AIM9 results +9. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller v2 AIM9 results http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/1 -10. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6 results, +10. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6 test results, http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/19/36 -11. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6, http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/17/69 +11. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller introduction (v6), + http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/17/69 12. Corbet, Jonathan, Controlling memory use in cgroups, http://lwn.net/Articles/243795/ |