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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> | 2010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-11-25 06:50:45 +0900 |
| commit | a42c390cfa0c2612459d7226ba11612847ca3a64 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dc06659b4f232461eb6852b8c4d17f8305aca91 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | b1dd693e5b9348bd68a80e679e03cf9c0973b01b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a42c390cfa0c2612459d7226ba11612847ca3a64.tar.gz lwn-a42c390cfa0c2612459d7226ba11612847ca3a64.zip | |
cgroups: make swap accounting default behavior configurable
Swap accounting can be configured by CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
configuration option and then it is turned on by default. There is a boot
option (noswapaccount) which can disable this feature.
This makes it hard for distributors to enable the configuration option as
this feature leads to a bigger memory consumption and this is a no-go for
general purpose distribution kernel. On the other hand swap accounting
may be very usuful for some workloads.
This patch adds a new configuration option which controls the default
behavior (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED). If the option is selected
then the feature is turned on by default.
It also adds a new boot parameter swapaccount[=1|0] which enhances the
original noswapaccount parameter semantic by means of enable/disable logic
(defaults to 1 if no value is provided to be still consistent with
noswapaccount).
The default behavior is unchanged (if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is
enabled then CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED is enabled as well)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 92e83e53148f..cdd2a6e8a3b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2385,6 +2385,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file improve throughput, but will also increase the amount of memory reserved for use by the client. + swapaccount[=0|1] + [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource + controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable + it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) + swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs switches= [HW,M68k] |