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memcg: update memcg_test.txt
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Subject: memcg: update memcg_test.txt
From: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Update memcg_test.txt to describe how to test the move-charge feature.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt~memcg-update-memcg_testtxt Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt~memcg-update-memcg_testtxt
+++ a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2009/1/20
-Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
+Last Updated: 2010/2
+Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.33-rc7-mm(candidate for 34).
Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
@@ -378,3 +378,21 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFI
#echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes
#echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes
run 51M of malloc
+
+ 9.9 Move charges at task migration
+ Charges associated with a task can be moved along with task migration.
+
+ (Shell-A)
+ #mkdir /cgroup/A
+ #echo $$ >/cgroup/A/tasks
+ run some programs which uses some amount of memory in /cgroup/A.
+
+ (Shell-B)
+ #mkdir /cgroup/B
+ #echo 1 >/cgroup/B/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
+ #echo "pid of the program running in group A" >/cgroup/B/tasks
+
+ You can see charges have been moved by reading *.usage_in_bytes or
+ memory.stat of both A and B.
+ See 8.2 of Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt to see what value should be
+ written to move_charge_at_immigrate.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
memcg-fix-oom-killing-a-child-process-in-an-other-cgroup.patch
mm-migratec-kill-anon-local-variable-from-migrate_page_copy.patch
cgroup-introduce-cancel_attach.patch
cgroup-introduce-coalesce-css_get-and-css_put.patch
memcg-add-interface-to-move-charge-at-task-migration.patch
memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-page.patch
memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-page-cleanup.patch
memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-charge.patch
memcg-avoid-oom-during-moving-charge.patch
memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-swap.patch
memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-swap-fix.patch
memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-swap-charge.patch
memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-swap-charge-fix.patch
cgroup-implement-eventfd-based-generic-api-for-notifications.patch
memcg-extract-mem_group_usage-from-mem_cgroup_read.patch
memcg-rework-usage-of-stats-by-soft-limit.patch
memcg-implement-memory-thresholds.patch
memcg-implement-memory-thresholds-checkpatch-fixes.patch
memcg-implement-memory-thresholds-checkpatch-fixes-fix.patch
memcg-use-generic-percpu-instead-of-private-implementation.patch
memcg-update-threshold-and-softlimit-at-commit-v2.patch
memcg-share-event-counter-rather-than-duplicate-v2.patch
memcg-update-memcg_testtxt.patch
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