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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-31 02:38:21 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-31 02:38:21 +0300
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@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
select MM_OWNER
help
- Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
- RSS memory.
+ Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
+ memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
- associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
- and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
- systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
+ associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
+ 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
+ usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
+ at boot.
Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
- sure you need the memory resource controller.
+ 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)
This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.