In v3.3-rc1, the global LRU has been removed with commit "mm: make per-memcg LRU lists exclusive". The patch fixes up the memcg docs. I left the swap session to someone who has better understanding of 'memory+swap'. Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 4c95c00..9b1067a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ Current Status: linux-2.6.34-mmotm(development version of 2010/April) Features: - accounting anonymous pages, file caches, swap caches usage and limiting them. - - private LRU and reclaim routine. (system's global LRU and private LRU - work independently from each other) + - pages are linked to per-memcg LRU exclusively, and there is no global LRU. - optionally, memory+swap usage can be accounted and limited. - hierarchical accounting - soft limit @@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ updated. page_cgroup has its own LRU on cgroup. 2.2.1 Accounting details All mapped anon pages (RSS) and cache pages (Page Cache) are accounted. -Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the global LRU +Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the LRU are not accounted. We just account pages under usual VM management. RSS pages are accounted at page_fault unless they've already been accounted -- 1.7.7.3 -- 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>