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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-03-18 10:37:55 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-03-18 10:37:55 +0300 |
| commit | 577f99c1d08cf9cbdafd4e858dd13ff04d855090 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f726bbda9b18d311d4c95198bbd96cb7ac01db0 /Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |
| parent | 26c0f03f6b77c513cb7bc37b73a06819bdbb791b (diff) | |
| parent | 2f633928cbba8a5858bb39b11e7219a41b0fbef5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-577f99c1d08cf9cbdafd4e858dd13ff04d855090.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 6015347b41e2..866b9cd9a959 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -Memory Controller +Memory Resource Controller + +NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has been generically been referred +to as the memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller +used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware. Salient features @@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ The memory controller uses the following hierarchy a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS -c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT +c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 1. Prepare the cgroups # mkdir -p /cgroups @@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, We can alter the memory limit: -# echo -n 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes +# echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, mega or gigabytes. @@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ number of factors, such as rounding up to page boundaries or the total availability of memory on the system. The user is required to re-read this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel. -# echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes +# echo 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes # cat memory.limit_in_bytes 4096 @@ -197,7 +201,7 @@ caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown. The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force. -# echo -n 1 > memory.force_empty +# echo 1 > memory.force_empty will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test. |