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@@ -271,59 +271,6 @@ config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
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-config CGROUPS
- bool "Control Group support"
- help
- This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
- such as Cpusets
-
- Say N if unsure.
-
-config CGROUP_DEBUG
- bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
- depends on CGROUPS
- default n
- help
- This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
- exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
- framework
-
- Say N if unsure
-
-config CGROUP_NS
- bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
- depends on CGROUPS
- help
- Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
- provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
- for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
- jobs.
-
-config CGROUP_FREEZER
- bool "control group freezer subsystem"
- depends on CGROUPS
- help
- Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
- cgroup.
-
-config CGROUP_DEVICE
- bool "Device controller for cgroups"
- depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
- help
- Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
- a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
-
-config CPUSETS
- bool "Cpuset support"
- depends on SMP && CGROUPS
- help
- This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
- allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
- Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
- This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
-
- Say N if unsure.
-
#
# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
#
@@ -337,6 +284,8 @@ config GROUP_SCHED
help
This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
+ In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
+ CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
@@ -374,28 +323,90 @@ config CGROUP_SCHED
This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
- Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
- on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
+ Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
+ information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
endchoice
+menuconfig CGROUPS
+ boolean "Control Group support"
+ help
+ This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
+ use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
+ controls or device isolation.
+ See
+ - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
+ - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
+ and resource control)
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+if CGROUPS
+
+config CGROUP_DEBUG
+ bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
+ depends on CGROUPS
+ default n
+ help
+ This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
+ exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
+ framework.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config CGROUP_NS
+ bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
+ depends on CGROUPS
+ help
+ Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
+ provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
+ for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
+ jobs.
+
+config CGROUP_FREEZER
+ bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
+ depends on CGROUPS
+ help
+ Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
+ cgroup.
+
+config CGROUP_DEVICE
+ bool "Device controller for cgroups"
+ depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
+ a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
+
+config CPUSETS
+ bool "Cpuset support"
+ depends on SMP && CGROUPS
+ help
+ This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
+ allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
+ Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
+ This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config PROC_PID_CPUSET
+ bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
+ depends on CPUSETS
+ default y
+
config CGROUP_CPUACCT
bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
depends on CGROUPS
help
Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
- total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
+ total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
bool "Resource counters"
help
This option enables controller independent resource accounting
- infrastructure that works with cgroups
+ infrastructure that works with cgroups.
depends on CGROUPS
-config MM_OWNER
- bool
-
config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
@@ -414,11 +425,32 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
- (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
+ (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
+config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
+ bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
+ enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
+ when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
+ usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
+ is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
+ adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
+ Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
+ be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
+ is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
+ there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
+ if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
+
+endif # CGROUPS
+
+config MM_OWNER
+ bool
+
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
bool
@@ -455,11 +487,6 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
this option set to N.
-config PROC_PID_CPUSET
- bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
- depends on CPUSETS
- default y
-
config RELAY
bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
help