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author | Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> | 2010-03-10 18:22:31 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 18:52:37 -0500 |
commit | 1080d7a30304d03b1d9fd530aacd8aece2d702a2 (patch) | |
tree | 371b66b05cae4a75f4d1cb6910847256498c14d3 /Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | |
parent | d2265e6fa3f220ea5fd37522d13390e9675adcf7 (diff) |
memcg: update memcg_test.txt
Update memcg_test.txt to describe how to test the move-charge feature.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 72db89ed0609..e01148886b5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | |||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ | |||
1 | Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. | 1 | Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. |
2 | Last Updated: 2009/1/20 | 2 | Last Updated: 2010/2 |
3 | Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2. | 3 | Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.33-rc7-mm(candidate for 34). |
4 | 4 | ||
5 | Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior | 5 | Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior |
6 | is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. | 6 | is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. |
@@ -378,3 +378,21 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. | |||
378 | #echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes | 378 | #echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes |
379 | #echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes | 379 | #echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes |
380 | run 51M of malloc | 380 | run 51M of malloc |
381 | |||
382 | 9.9 Move charges at task migration | ||
383 | Charges associated with a task can be moved along with task migration. | ||
384 | |||
385 | (Shell-A) | ||
386 | #mkdir /cgroup/A | ||
387 | #echo $$ >/cgroup/A/tasks | ||
388 | run some programs which uses some amount of memory in /cgroup/A. | ||
389 | |||
390 | (Shell-B) | ||
391 | #mkdir /cgroup/B | ||
392 | #echo 1 >/cgroup/B/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate | ||
393 | #echo "pid of the program running in group A" >/cgroup/B/tasks | ||
394 | |||
395 | You can see charges have been moved by reading *.usage_in_bytes or | ||
396 | memory.stat of both A and B. | ||
397 | See 8.2 of Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt to see what value should be | ||
398 | written to move_charge_at_immigrate. | ||