Re: [PATCH -mmotm] memcg: implement memory thresholds documentfixes

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 20:21:27 EST


On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:57:14 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Each memcg-implement-memory-thresholds.patch and
> memcg-add-interface-to-move-charge-at-task-migration.patch try to add a new
> section to Documentation/cgroup/memory.txt, so the document has been a bit
> mangled when these patches are merged at the same time.
>
> This patch fixes it.
>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

BTW, I'll prepare total update for memcg (especially around percpu counter).
Do you have something may conflict in plan ?

Thanks,
-Kame

> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch can be applied after memcg-implement-memory-thresholds-checkpatch-fixes.patch.
>
> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> index 226a955..aad7d05 100644
> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> @@ -458,7 +458,15 @@ Note: Those pages and swaps must be charged to the old cgroup.
> Note: More type of pages(e.g. file cache, shmem,) will be supported by other
> bits in future.
>
> -8.3 Memory thresholds
> +8.3 TODO
> +
> +- Add support for other types of pages(e.g. file cache, shmem, etc.).
> +- Implement madvise(2) to let users decide the vma to be moved or not to be
> + moved.
> +- All of moving charge operations are done under cgroup_mutex. It's not good
> + behavior to hold the mutex too long, so we may need some trick.
> +
> +9. Memory thresholds
>
> Memory controler implements memory thresholds using cgroups notification
> API (see cgroups.txt). It allows to register multiple memory and memsw
> @@ -475,16 +483,7 @@ threshold in any direction.
>
> It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup.
>
> -
> -8.4 TODO
> -
> -- Add support for other types of pages(e.g. file cache, shmem, etc.).
> -- Implement madvise(2) to let users decide the vma to be moved or not to be
> - moved.
> -- All of moving charge operations are done under cgroup_mutex. It's not good
> - behavior to hold the mutex too long, so we may need some trick.
> -
> -9. TODO
> +10. TODO
>
> 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller)
> 2. Make per-cgroup scanner reclaim not-shared pages first
> --
> 1.5.6.1
>
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