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| author | Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> | 2010-03-10 15:22:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 15:52:37 -0800 |
| commit | 1080d7a30304d03b1d9fd530aacd8aece2d702a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 371b66b05cae4a75f4d1cb6910847256498c14d3 /Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | |
| parent | d2265e6fa3f220ea5fd37522d13390e9675adcf7 (diff) | |
memcg: update memcg_test.txt
Update memcg_test.txt to describe how to test the move-charge feature.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 72db89ed0609..e01148886b5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. -Last Updated: 2009/1/20 -Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2. +Last Updated: 2010/2 +Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.33-rc7-mm(candidate for 34). Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. @@ -378,3 +378,21 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. #echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes #echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes run 51M of malloc + + 9.9 Move charges at task migration + Charges associated with a task can be moved along with task migration. + + (Shell-A) + #mkdir /cgroup/A + #echo $$ >/cgroup/A/tasks + run some programs which uses some amount of memory in /cgroup/A. + + (Shell-B) + #mkdir /cgroup/B + #echo 1 >/cgroup/B/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate + #echo "pid of the program running in group A" >/cgroup/B/tasks + + You can see charges have been moved by reading *.usage_in_bytes or + memory.stat of both A and B. + See 8.2 of Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt to see what value should be + written to move_charge_at_immigrate. |