Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index dd15be8..95e4809 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -300,6 +300,13 @@ to trigger slab reclaim when those limits are reached. kernel memory, we prevent new processes from being created when the kernel memory usage is too high. +* slab pages: pages allocated by the SLAB or SLUB allocator are tracked. A copy +of each kmem_cache is created everytime the cache is touched by the first time +from inside the memcg. The creation is done lazily, so some objects can still be +skipped while the cache is being created. All objects in a slab page should +belong to the same memcg. This only fails to hold when a task is migrated to a +different memcg during the page allocation by the cache. + * sockets memory pressure: some sockets protocols have memory pressure thresholds. The Memory Controller allows them to be controlled individually per cgroup, instead of globally. -- 1.7.11.4 -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>