Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix the document of pgpgin/pgpgout

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Mon 21-11-11 16:48:45, Ying Han wrote:
> The two memcg stats pgpgin/pgpgout have different meaning than the ones in
> vmstat, which indicates that we picked a bad naming for them. It might be late
> to change the stat name, but better documentation is always helpful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>

If not too late
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |    7 +++++--
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> index cc0ebc5..eb6a911 100644
> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> @@ -386,8 +386,11 @@ memory.stat file includes following statistics
>  cache		- # of bytes of page cache memory.
>  rss		- # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory.
>  mapped_file	- # of bytes of mapped file (includes tmpfs/shmem)
> -pgpgin		- # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events).
> -pgpgout		- # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events).
> +pgpgin		- # of charging events to the memory cgroup. The charging
> +		event happens each time a page is accounted as either mapped
> +		anon page(RSS) or cache page(Page Cache) to the cgroup.
> +pgpgout		- # of uncharging events to the memory cgroup. The uncharging
> +		event happens each time a page is unaccounted from the cgroup.
>  swap		- # of bytes of swap usage
>  inactive_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on
>  		LRU list.
> -- 
> 1.7.3.1
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