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author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2008-10-29 17:01:06 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-30 14:38:46 -0400 |
commit | 84ad6d70001df969d7e8569dd18d98d9550277fb (patch) | |
tree | dee0cb5d20d596ab5144875fe2548dae0e7e2e24 /init/Kconfig | |
parent | 99e87fd19a2dfba8ec0f2110f6f1b63062a52a6f (diff) |
memcg: update menuconfig help text
page_cgroup is now allocated at boot and memmap doesn't includes pointer
for page_cgroup. Fix the menu help text.
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 44e9208f9c78..86b00c53fade 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig | |||
@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR | |||
401 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS | 401 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
402 | select MM_OWNER | 402 | select MM_OWNER |
403 | help | 403 | help |
404 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and | 404 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous |
405 | RSS memory. | 405 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) |
406 | 406 | ||
407 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead | 407 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead |
408 | associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes | 408 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |
409 | and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit | 409 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory |
410 | systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore. | 410 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out |
411 | at boot. | ||
411 | 412 | ||
412 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really | 413 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really |
413 | sure you need the memory resource controller. | 414 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable |
415 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to | ||
416 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. | ||
417 | (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller) | ||
414 | 418 | ||
415 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which | 419 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which |
416 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. | 420 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. |