From 92e793495597af4135d94314113bf13eafb0e663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:23:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: JoonSoo Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 5b5b63143778..8b8c28b9864c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ to trigger slab reclaim when those limits are reached. kernel memory, we prevent new processes from being created when the kernel memory usage is too high. +* slab pages: pages allocated by the SLAB or SLUB allocator are tracked. A copy +of each kmem_cache is created everytime the cache is touched by the first time +from inside the memcg. The creation is done lazily, so some objects can still be +skipped while the cache is being created. All objects in a slab page should +belong to the same memcg. This only fails to hold when a task is migrated to a +different memcg during the page allocation by the cache. + * sockets memory pressure: some sockets protocols have memory pressure thresholds. The Memory Controller allows them to be controlled individually per cgroup, instead of globally. -- GitLab