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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 /init | |
| 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 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 88c10468db46..c9728992a776 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -613,6 +613,19 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. +config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED + bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" + depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP + default y + help + Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in + a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels + which want to enable the feautre but keep it disabled by default + and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line + parameter should have this option unselected. + For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should + select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it + then noswapaccount does the trick). menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED bool "Group CPU scheduler" |