From 3dae7fec5e884a4e72e5416db0894de66f586201 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:07:01 -0700 Subject: mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy. Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned on hierarchy mode. In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default, this restriction disables the tunables entirely. But there is no good reason for this restriction. The settings for swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in the hierarchy tree. Allow setting swappiness on any group. The knob on the root memcg already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well. Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 2622115276aa..1829c65f8371 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -535,17 +535,15 @@ Note: 5.3 swappiness -Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. +Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but only affecting reclaim that is +triggered by this cgroup's hard limit. The tunable in the root cgroup +corresponds to the global swappiness setting. + Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0 really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file pages to reclaim. -Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed. -- root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness). -- a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has other cgroup(s) below it. -- a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy. - 5.4 failcnt A memory cgroup provides memory.failcnt and memory.memsw.failcnt files. @@ -754,7 +752,6 @@ You can disable the OOM-killer by writing "1" to memory.oom_control file, as: #echo 1 > memory.oom_control -This operation is only allowed to the top cgroup of a sub-hierarchy. If OOM-killer is disabled, tasks under cgroup will hang/sleep in memory cgroup's OOM-waitqueue when they request accountable memory. -- cgit