[PATCH v2 7/9] docs: cgroup-v1: make swap extension subsections subsections

Bagas Sanjaya
2023-01-05T13:16:32Z

Subsections text of swap extension section is marked up as bold text,
whereas making them proper subsection is more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 162cc26dcddb25..0e583a6f783955 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ In this case, setting memsw.limit_in_bytes=3G will prevent bad use of swap.
By using the memsw limit, you can avoid system OOM which can be caused by swap
shortage.

-**why 'memory+swap' rather than swap**
+2.4.1 why 'memory+swap' rather than swap
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
@@ -252,7 +253,8 @@ memory+swap. In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without
affecting global LRU, memory+swap limit is better than just limiting swap from
an OS point of view.

-**What happens when a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes**
+2.4.2. What happens when a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes, it's useless to do swap-out
in this cgroup. Then, swap-out will not be done by cgroup routine and file