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| author |   KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-01-29 14:25:14 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-29 18:04:44 -0800 |
| commit | 8d50d369d1b3ccc4d96ce01f62146173ee7064ca (patch) | |
| tree | e48c19188cb9eba15e73702e0f2e33bd7aba0d84 /Documentation | |
| parent | memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoff (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8d50d369d1b3ccc4d96ce01f62146173ee7064ca.tar.xz linux-dev-8d50d369d1b3ccc4d96ce01f62146173ee7064ca.zip | |
memcg: update document to mention that swapoff should be tested
Considering the recently found problem "memcg: fix refcnt handling at
swapoff", it's better to mention swapoff behavior in the memcg_test
document.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 19533f93b7a2..523a9c16c400 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. -Last Updated: 2008/12/15 -Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm. +Last Updated: 2009/1/19 +Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2. Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. @@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this. + + 9.7 swapoff. + Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg, + call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path.. + It's worth to be tested explicitly. + + For example, test like following is good. + (Shell-A) + # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory + # mkdir /cgroup/test + # echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes + # echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks + Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps. + (Shell-B) + # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup + # /sbin/swapoff -a + # rmdir /test/cgroup + # kill malloc task. + + Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too. |