Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] Display current tcp memory allocation in kmem cgroup

Glauber Costa
2011-10-03T12:20:35Z

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<glommer@parallels.com>
>> CC: David S. Miller<davem@davemloft.net>
>> CC: Hiroyouki Kamezawa<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>> CC: Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm@xmission.com>
>> ---
>> 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.

Thanks.