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| author | Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> | 2012-12-11 22:15:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> | 2012-12-11 22:15:57 -0800 |
| commit | 76d8a23b127020472207b281427d3e9f4f1227e4 (patch) | |
| tree | e14d7063d96d850fb259115d6fb08cbeb98ccf88 /Documentation/cgroups | |
| parent | eba3b670a9166a91be5a11fe33290dca6b9457a2 (diff) | |
| parent | 1ebaf4f4e6912199f8a4e30ba3ab55da2b71bcdf (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
The merge is merely to fix conflicts before sending a pull request.
Conflicts:
drivers/power/ab8500_btemp.c
drivers/power/ab8500_charger.c
drivers/power/ab8500_fg.c
drivers/power/abx500_chargalg.c
drivers/power/max8925_power.c
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index c07f7b4fb88..a25cb3fafeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ Figure 1 shows the important aspects of the controller 3. Each page has a pointer to the page_cgroup, which in turn knows the cgroup it belongs to -The accounting is done as follows: mem_cgroup_charge() is invoked to set up -the necessary data structures and check if the cgroup that is being charged -is over its limit. If it is, then reclaim is invoked on the cgroup. +The accounting is done as follows: mem_cgroup_charge_common() is invoked to +set up the necessary data structures and check if the cgroup that is being +charged is over its limit. If it is, then reclaim is invoked on the cgroup. More details can be found in the reclaim section of this document. If everything goes well, a page meta-data-structure called page_cgroup is updated. page_cgroup has its own LRU on cgroup. @@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ Note: 5.3 swappiness Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. +Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0 +really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage +available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file +pages to reclaim. Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed. - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness). |