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authorDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>2010-03-10 15:22:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:37 -0800
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memcg: update memcg_test.txt
Update memcg_test.txt to describe how to test the move-charge feature. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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 CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
#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.