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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"xemul@openvz.org" <xemul@openvz.org>,
	"menage@google.com" <menage@google.com>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/11] memcg: fix kconfig menu comment
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:59:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023175946.8c67a51f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023175800.73afc957.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Fixes menu help text for memcg-allocate-page-cgroup-at-boot.patch.


Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

 init/Kconfig |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: mmotm-2.6.27+/init/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.27+.orig/init/Kconfig
+++ mmotm-2.6.27+/init/Kconfig
@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
 	select MM_OWNER
 	help
-	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
-	  RSS memory.
+	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
+	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
 
 	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
-	  associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
-	  and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
-	  systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
+	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
+	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
+	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
+	  at boot.
 
 	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
-	  sure you need the memory resource controller.
+	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
+	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
+	  disable memoyr resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
+	  (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
 
 	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
 	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23  8:58 [RFC][PATCH 0/11] memcg updates / clean up, lazy lru ,mem+swap controller KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  8:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2008-10-24  4:24   ` [RFC][PATCH 1/11] memcg: fix kconfig menu comment Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24  4:28     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/11] cgroup: make cgroup kconfig as submenu KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23 21:20   ` Paul Menage
2008-10-24  1:16     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/11] memcg: charge commit cancel protocol KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/11] memcg: better page migration handling KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/11] memcg: account move and change force_empty KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-24  4:28   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24  4:37     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/11] memcg: lary LRU removal KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/11] memcg: lazy lru add KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/11] memcg: shmem account helper KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:12 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/11] memcg : mem+swap controlelr kconfig KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-24  4:32   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24  4:37     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-27  6:39   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2008-10-27  7:17     ` Li Zefan
2008-10-27  7:24       ` Daisuke Nishimura
2008-10-28  0:08     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/11] memcg: swap cgroup KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-27  7:02   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2008-10-28  0:09     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-23  9:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/11] memcg: mem+swap controler core KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-27 11:37   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2008-10-28  0:16     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-28  2:06       ` Daisuke Nishimura
2008-10-28  2:30         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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