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@@ -137,12 +137,32 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared
137page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from 137page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from
138the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). 138the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure).
139 139
140Exception: When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to 140Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used..
141When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to
141be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the 142be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the
142caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. 143caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem.
143 144
144 145
1452.4 Reclaim 1462.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP)
147Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is
148charged back to original page allocator if possible.
149
150When swap is accounted, following files are added.
151 - memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes.
152 - memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes.
153
154usage of mem+swap is limited by memsw.limit_in_bytes.
155
156Note: why 'mem+swap' rather than swap.
157The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
158to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
159mem+swap.
160
161In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting
162global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap from OS point
163of view.
164
1652.5 Reclaim
146 166
147Each cgroup maintains a per cgroup LRU that consists of an active 167Each cgroup maintains a per cgroup LRU that consists of an active
148and inactive list. When a cgroup goes over its limit, we first try 168and inactive list. When a cgroup goes over its limit, we first try
@@ -246,6 +266,11 @@ Such charges are freed(at default) or moved to its parent. When moved,
246both of RSS and CACHES are moved to parent. 266both of RSS and CACHES are moved to parent.
247If both of them are busy, rmdir() returns -EBUSY. See 5.1 Also. 267If both of them are busy, rmdir() returns -EBUSY. See 5.1 Also.
248 268
269Charges recorded in swap information is not updated at removal of cgroup.
270Recorded information is discarded and a cgroup which uses swap (swapcache)
271will be charged as a new owner of it.
272
273
2495. Misc. interfaces. 2745. Misc. interfaces.
250 275
2515.1 force_empty 2765.1 force_empty