From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44EC29000C6 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:36:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:36:20 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] Display current tcp memory allocation in kmem cgroup Message-ID: <20111003123620.GA30018@shutemov.name> References: <1317637123-18306-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1317637123-18306-8-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20111003121446.GD29312@shutemov.name> <4E89A846.1010200@parallels.com> <20111003122511.GA29982@shutemov.name> <4E89AA01.3000803@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E89AA01.3000803@parallels.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paul@paulmenage.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, davem@davemloft.net, gthelen@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avagin@parallels.com On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:26:41PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 10/03/2011 04:25 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:19:18PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> On 10/03/2011 04:14 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:18:42PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > >>>> This patch introduces kmem.tcp_current_memory file, living in the > >>>> kmem_cgroup filesystem. It is a simple read-only file that displays the > >>>> amount of kernel memory currently consumed by the cgroup. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa > >>>> CC: David S. Miller > >>>> CC: Hiroyouki Kamezawa > >>>> CC: Eric W. Biederman > >>>> --- > >>>> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 1 + > >>>> mm/memcontrol.c | 11 +++++++++++ > >>>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > >>>> > >>>> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > >>>> index 1ffde3e..f5a539d 100644 > >>>> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > >>>> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > >>>> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Brief summary of control files. > >>>> memory.independent_kmem_limit # select whether or not kernel memory limits are > >>>> independent of user limits > >>>> memory.kmem.tcp.max_memory # set/show hard limit for tcp buf memory > >>>> + memory.kmem.tcp.current_memory # show current tcp buf memory allocation > >>> > >>> Both are in pages, right? > >>> Shouldn't it be scaled to bytes and named uniform with other memcg file? > >>> memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes/usage_in_bytes. > >>> > >> You are absolutely correct. > >> Since the internal tcp comparison works, I just ended up never noticing > >> this. > > > > Should we have failcnt and max_usage_in_bytes for tcp as well? > > > > Well, we get a fail count from the tracer anyway, so I don't really see > a need for that. I see value in having it for the slab allocation > itself, but since this only controls the memory pressure framework, I > think we can live without it. > > That said, this is not a strong opinion. I can add it if you'd prefer. It's good for userspace to have the same set of files for all domains: - memory; - memory.memsw; - memory.kmem; - memory.kmem.tcp; - etc. Userspace can reuse code for handling them in this case. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org