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| author | Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> | 2012-12-18 14:23:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -0800 |
| commit | 92e793495597af4135d94314113bf13eafb0e663 (patch) | |
| tree | 7647becc58b64c524de60f3262188239ed808416 /Documentation | |
| parent | 107dab5c92d5f9c3afe962036e47c207363255c7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-92e793495597af4135d94314113bf13eafb0e663.tar.gz lwn-92e793495597af4135d94314113bf13eafb0e663.zip | |
kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 5b5b63143778..8b8c28b9864c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ to trigger slab reclaim when those limits are reached. kernel memory, we prevent new processes from being created when the kernel memory usage is too high. +* slab pages: pages allocated by the SLAB or SLUB allocator are tracked. A copy +of each kmem_cache is created everytime the cache is touched by the first time +from inside the memcg. The creation is done lazily, so some objects can still be +skipped while the cache is being created. All objects in a slab page should +belong to the same memcg. This only fails to hold when a task is migrated to a +different memcg during the page allocation by the cache. + * sockets memory pressure: some sockets protocols have memory pressure thresholds. The Memory Controller allows them to be controlled individually per cgroup, instead of globally. |