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| author | Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-09-23 15:56:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:20:59 -0700 |
| commit | 296c81d89f4f14269f7346f81442910158c0a83a (patch) | |
| tree | cf0e1facd1fed8282c1885bc4126e7bca1928712 /mm/memcontrol.c | |
| parent | a6df63615b943dbef22df04c19f4506330fe835e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-296c81d89f4f14269f7346f81442910158c0a83a.tar.gz lwn-296c81d89f4f14269f7346f81442910158c0a83a.zip | |
memory controller: soft limit interface
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits. Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported. Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added. Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.
Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter. Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here. Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index eb9571815f0c..4ad3e6be045d 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2123,6 +2123,20 @@ static int mem_cgroup_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, else ret = mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(memcg, val); break; + case RES_SOFT_LIMIT: + ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val); + if (ret) + break; + /* + * For memsw, soft limits are hard to implement in terms + * of semantics, for now, we support soft limits for + * control without swap + */ + if (type == _MEM) + ret = res_counter_set_soft_limit(&memcg->res, val); + else + ret = -EINVAL; + break; default: ret = -EINVAL; /* should be BUG() ? */ break; @@ -2376,6 +2390,12 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[] = { .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read, }, { + .name = "soft_limit_in_bytes", + .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_MEM, RES_SOFT_LIMIT), + .write_string = mem_cgroup_write, + .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read, + }, + { .name = "failcnt", .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_MEM, RES_FAILCNT), .trigger = mem_cgroup_reset, |