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| author | Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-01-07 18:08:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -0800 |
| commit | 52bc0d82100cd896213a9a25ec01c1ba87b939db (patch) | |
| tree | 9d697d032c9374e2d14639ca8ef48577d020d573 /Documentation/controllers | |
| parent | f8d665422603ee1b8ed04dcad4242f14d623c941 (diff) | |
memcg: memory cgroup hierarchy documentation
Documentation updates for hierarchy support
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@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/controllers')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 38 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 05fe29ab1e5..09e1c737d28 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -289,8 +289,44 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. +6. Hierarchy support -6. TODO +The memory controller supports a deep hierarchy and hierarchical accounting. +The hierarchy is created by creating the appropriate cgroups in the +cgroup filesystem. Consider for example, the following cgroup filesystem +hierarchy + + root + / | \ + / | \ + a b c + | \ + | \ + d e + +In the diagram above, with hierarchical accounting enabled, all memory +usage of e, is accounted to its ancestors up until the root (i.e, c and root), +that has memory.use_hierarchy enabled. If one of the ancestors goes over its +limit, the reclaim algorithm reclaims from the tasks in the ancestor and the +children of the ancestor. + +6.1 Enabling hierarchical accounting and reclaim + +The memory controller by default disables the hierarchy feature. Support +can be enabled by writing 1 to memory.use_hierarchy file of the root cgroup + +# echo 1 > memory.use_hierarchy + +The feature can be disabled by + +# echo 0 > memory.use_hierarchy + +NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other +cgroups created below it. + +NOTE2: This feature can be enabled/disabled per subtree. + +7. TODO 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller) 2. Make per-cgroup scanner reclaim not-shared pages first |