The two memcg stats pgpgin/pgpgout have different meaning than the ones in vmstat, which indicates that we picked a bad naming for them. It might be late to change the stat name, but better documentation is always helpful. Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index cc0ebc5..eb6a911 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -386,8 +386,11 @@ memory.stat file includes following statistics cache - # of bytes of page cache memory. rss - # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory. mapped_file - # of bytes of mapped file (includes tmpfs/shmem) -pgpgin - # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events). -pgpgout - # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events). +pgpgin - # of charging events to the memory cgroup. The charging + event happens each time a page is accounted as either mapped + anon page(RSS) or cache page(Page Cache) to the cgroup. +pgpgout - # of uncharging events to the memory cgroup. The uncharging + event happens each time a page is unaccounted from the cgroup. swap - # of bytes of swap usage inactive_anon - # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on LRU list. -- 1.7.3.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>