Re: [PATCH V2] memcg: add documentation for memory.numastat API.

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> [2011-05-24 00:01:53]:

> change v2..v1:
> 1. add sample output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> index 2d7e527..0b1a1ce 100644
> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
>   memory.move_charge_at_immigrate # set/show controls of moving charges
>   memory.oom_control		 # set/show oom controls.
>   memory.async_control		 # set control for asynchronous memory reclaim
> + memory.numa_stat		 # show the number of memory usage per numa node
> 
>  1. History
> 
> @@ -477,6 +478,23 @@ value for efficient access. (Of course, when necessary, it's synchronized.)
>  If you want to know more exact memory usage, you should use RSS+CACHE(+SWAP)
>  value in memory.stat(see 5.2).
> 
> +5.6 numa_stat
> +
> +This is similar to numa_maps but per-memcg basis. This is useful to add visibility
> +of numa locality information in memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated
> +at any physical node. One of the usecase is evaluating application performance by
> +combining this information with the cpu allocation to the application.
> +
> +We export "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable" pages per-node for each memcg.
> +The format ouput of the memory.numa_stat:
> +
> +total=<total pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
> +file=<total file pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
> +anon=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
> +unevictable=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
> +
> +And we have total = file + anon + unevictable.
> +

Looks good


Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 

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	Balbir

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