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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index dd88540bb995..4372e6b8a353 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes # set/show hard limit for tcp buf memory memory.kmem.tcp.usage_in_bytes # show current tcp buf memory allocation + memory.kmem.tcp.failcnt # show the number of tcp buf memory usage hits limits + memory.kmem.tcp.max_usage_in_bytes # show max tcp buf memory usage recorded 1. History @@ -187,12 +189,12 @@ the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen. -Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used. +Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP is not used. When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. -2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP) +2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP) Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is charged back to original page allocator if possible. @@ -259,7 +261,7 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by zone->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own. -2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM) +2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) With the Kernel memory extension, the Memory Controller is able to limit the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally @@ -286,8 +288,8 @@ per cgroup, instead of globally. a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS -c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -d. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP (to use swap extension) +c. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG +d. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP (to use swap extension) 1. Prepare the cgroups (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?) # mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup |