On Thu, Jan 08 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Introduce the basic control files to account, partition, and limit > memory using cgroups in default hierarchy mode. > > This interface versioning allows us to address fundamental design > issues in the existing memory cgroup interface, further explained > below. The old interface will be maintained indefinitely, but a > clearer model and improved workload performance should encourage > existing users to switch over to the new one eventually. > > The control files are thus: > > - memory.current shows the current consumption of the cgroup and its > descendants, in bytes. > > - memory.low configures the lower end of the cgroup's expected > memory consumption range. The kernel considers memory below that > boundary to be a reserve - the minimum that the workload needs in > order to make forward progress - and generally avoids reclaiming > it, unless there is an imminent risk of entering an OOM situation. So this is try-hard, but no-promises interface. No complaints. But I assume that an eventual extension is a more rigid memory.min which specifies a minimum working set under which an container would prefer an oom kill to thrashing. -- 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>