Re: [PATCH -V9 15/15] hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controllerdocumentation

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 06:08:10 EST


On Wed 13-06-12 15:57:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Minor nid below
> ---
> Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..a9faaca
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
[...]
> +With the above step, the initial or the parent HugeTLB group becomes
> +visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in
> +the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
> +
> +New groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup.
> +
> +# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> +# mkdir g1
> +# echo $$ > g1/tasks
> +
> +The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
> +process (bash) into it.

This is probably not needed as it is already described in the generic
cgroups description

> +
> +Brief summary of control files
> +
> + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage
> + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
> + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
> + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit
> +
> +For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control
> +files include:
> +
> +hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16GB.failcnt
> +hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes
> +hugetlb.16MB.failcnt
> --
> 1.7.10
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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