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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: [PATCH v2 -mmotm 4/4] memcg: Update memcg_test.txt to describe memory thresholds
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:43:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31d1e8b43222486d8bb1873007b5cde1b5067f28.1266853234.git.kirill@shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458c3169608cb333f390b2cb732565fec9fec67e.1266853234.git.kirill@shutemov.name>
In-Reply-To: <458c3169608cb333f390b2cb732565fec9fec67e.1266853234.git.kirill@shutemov.name>

Decription of sanity check for memory thresholds.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
index e011488..4d32e0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -396,3 +396,24 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
 	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.
+
+ 9.10 Memory thresholds
+	Memory controler implements memory thresholds using cgroups notification
+	API. You can use Documentation/cgroups/cgroup_event_listener.c to test
+	it.
+
+	(Shell-A) Create cgroup and run event listener
+	# mkdir /cgroup/A
+	# ./cgroup_event_listener /cgroup/A/memory.usage_in_bytes 5M
+
+	(Shell-B) Add task to cgroup and try to allocate and free memory
+	# echo $$ >/cgroup/A/tasks
+	# a="$(dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10)"
+	# a=
+
+	You will see message from cgroup_event_listener every time you cross
+	the thresholds.
+
+	Use /cgroup/A/memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes to test memsw thresholds.
+
+	It's good idea to test root cgroup as well.
-- 
1.6.6.2

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-22 15:43 [PATCH v2 -mmotm 1/4] cgroups: Fix race between userspace and kernelspace Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-02-22 15:43 ` [PATCH v2 -mmotm 2/4] cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objects Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-02-22 15:43   ` [PATCH v2 -mmotm 3/4] cgroups: Add simple listener of cgroup events to documentation Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-02-22 15:43     ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2010-02-23  3:19     ` Li Zefan
2010-02-24  3:30     ` Li Zefan
2010-02-24 11:36       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-02-23  3:18   ` [PATCH v2 -mmotm 2/4] cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objects Li Zefan
2010-02-24  8:40   ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-24 11:42     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-02-24 12:17       ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-23  3:17 ` [PATCH v2 -mmotm 1/4] cgroups: Fix race between userspace and kernelspace Li Zefan
2010-02-24  7:12 ` Balbir Singh

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