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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 4937e6fff9b4..b3429aec444c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -540,14 +540,13 @@ Note: 5.3 swappiness -Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but only affecting reclaim that is -triggered by this cgroup's hard limit. The tunable in the root cgroup -corresponds to the global swappiness setting. - -Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0 -really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage -available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file -pages to reclaim. +Overrides /proc/sys/vm/swappiness for the particular group. The tunable +in the root cgroup corresponds to the global swappiness setting. + +Please note that unlike during the global reclaim, limit reclaim +enforces that 0 swappiness really prevents from any swapping even if +there is a swap storage available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer +if there are no file pages to reclaim. 5.4 failcnt |