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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: Fix documentation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:48:17 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408071817.GD4069@in.ibm.com> (raw)

memcg: Fix documentation.

The description about various statistics from memory.stat is not accurate
and confusing at times.

Correct this along with a few other minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -6,15 +6,14 @@ used here with the memory controller tha
 
 Salient features
 
-a. Enable control of both RSS (mapped) and Page Cache (unmapped) pages
+a. Enable control of RSS (mapped), Page Cache (unmapped) and Swap cache
+   (unmapped) pages.
 b. The infrastructure allows easy addition of other types of memory to control
 c. Provides *zero overhead* for non memory controller users
 d. Provides a double LRU: global memory pressure causes reclaim from the
    global LRU; a cgroup on hitting a limit, reclaims from the per
    cgroup LRU
 
-NOTE: Swap Cache (unmapped) is not accounted now.
-
 Benefits and Purpose of the memory controller
 
 The memory controller isolates the memory behaviour of a group of tasks
@@ -290,34 +289,41 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
   moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
 
 5.2 stat file
-  memory.stat file includes following statistics (now)
-	cache			- # of pages from page-cache and shmem.
-	rss			- # of pages from anonymous memory.
-	pgpgin			- # of event of charging
-	pgpgout			- # of event of uncharging
-	active_anon		- # of pages on active lru of anon, shmem.
-	inactive_anon 		- # of pages on active lru of anon, shmem
-	active_file		- # of pages on active lru of file-cache
-	inactive_file		- # of pages on inactive lru of file cache
-	unevictable		- # of pages cannot be reclaimed.(mlocked etc)
-
-	Below is depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
-	inactive_ratio		- VM inernal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c)
-	recent_rotated_anon	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
-	recent_rotated_file	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
-	recent_scanned_anon 	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
-	recent_scanned_file 	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
 
-  Memo:
+memory.stat file includes following statistics
+
+cache		- # of bytes of page-cache memory.
+rss		- # of bytes of anonymous memory.
+pgpgin		- # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events).
+pgpgout		- # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events).
+active_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory on active lru list.
+inactive_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory on inactive lru list.
+active_file	- # of bytes of file-backed memory on active lru list.
+inactive_file	- # of bytes of file-backed memory on inactive lru list.
+unevictable	- # of bytes of memory that cannot be reclaimed (mlocked etc).
+
+The following additional stats are dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
+
+inactive_ratio		- VM inernal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c)
+recent_rotated_anon	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
+recent_rotated_file	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
+recent_scanned_anon	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
+recent_scanned_file	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
+
+Memo:
 	recent_rotated means recent frequency of lru rotation.
 	recent_scanned means recent # of scans to lru.
 	showing for better debug please see the code for meanings.
 
+Note:
+	Only anonymous memory is listed as part of 'rss' stat. This should
+	not be confused with the true 'resident set size' or the amount of
+	physical memory used by the cgroup.
 
 5.3 swappiness
   Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
 
-  Following cgroup's swapiness can't be changed.
+  Following cgroups' swapiness can't be changed.
   - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has child cgroup.
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08  7:18 Bharata B Rao [this message]
2009-04-08  7:25 ` [PATCH] memcg: Fix documentation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-08  8:33   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-08  8:37     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-08  9:34   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-08 23:56     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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