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linux/Documentation
Balbir Singh a6df63615b memory controller: soft limit documentation
Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something
similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares.  The CPU
controllers interpretation of shares is very different though.

Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the
administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory
contention do the limits become active.  The current soft limits
implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory
controller and not for memory+swap controller.  The implementation
maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts
reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount.

This patch:

Add documentation for soft limits

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
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ABI Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2009-09-23 09:32:11 -07:00
accounting Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
acpi
aoe
arm Merge branch 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2009-09-18 09:19:26 -07:00
auxdisplay includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.c 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
blackfin
block Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt. 2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
blockdev
cdrom debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
cgroups memory controller: soft limit documentation 2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
connector Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-07-23 19:03:51 -07:00
console
cpu-freq [CPUFREQ] update Doc for cpuinfo_cur_freq and scaling_cur_freq 2009-09-01 12:45:09 -04:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto
development-process docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document 2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
device-mapper dm raid1: add userspace log 2009-06-22 10:12:35 +01:00
DocBook Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
driver-model driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc. 2009-07-12 13:02:10 -07:00
dvb V4L/DVB (12902): Documentation: synchronize documentation for Technisat cards 2009-09-19 00:14:32 -03:00
early-userspace
fault-injection debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
fb matroxfb: make CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y mandatory 2009-09-23 07:39:56 -07:00
filesystems doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
firmware_class driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait 2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
frv
hwmon Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2009-09-23 15:20:16 -07:00
i2c i2c-piix4: Add AMD SB900 SMBus device ID 2009-09-18 22:45:50 +02:00
i2o
ia64 Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
ide ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) 2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
infiniband
input Input: add new driver for Sentelic Finger Sensing Pad 2009-08-19 21:46:09 -07:00
ioctl Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
isdn isdn: clean up documentation index 2009-06-20 01:10:38 -07:00
ja_JP block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
kbuild kbuild: introduce ld-option 2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
kdump trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ko_KR
kvm KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP 2009-09-10 10:46:55 +03:00
laptops Merge branch 'asus' into release 2009-09-19 01:55:27 -04:00
lguest lguest: don't force VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY 2009-09-23 22:26:47 +09:30
m68k
make
mips
misc-devices
mn10300 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
mtd trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
parisc
PCI PCI: document PCIe fundamental reset interfaces 2009-09-09 13:29:38 -07:00
pcmcia Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
power Merge git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6 2009-09-23 10:11:08 -07:00
powerpc Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2009-09-23 10:07:49 -07:00
pps LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
prctl
RCU rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU 2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
s390 [S390] s390dbf: Add description for usage of "%s" in sprintf events 2009-09-11 10:29:53 +02:00
scheduler sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version 2009-06-21 13:12:46 +02:00
scsi trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" 2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
serial
sh
sound trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" 2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
sparc
spi spi: fix spelling of `automatically' in documentation 2009-09-23 07:39:44 -07:00
sysctl Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
telephony
thermal
timers trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
uml
usb USB: Fix sysfs paths in documentation 2009-09-23 06:46:41 -07:00
video4linux Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
vm page-types: add feature for walking process address space 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
w1
watchdog Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
wimax
x86 USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp 2009-09-23 06:46:39 -07:00
zh_CN
00-INDEX Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver 2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: fix sample code 2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver 2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING
c2port.txt
cachetlb.txt
Changes Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel 2009-06-18 13:03:46 -07:00
CodingStyle trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. 2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
credentials.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos 2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt
DMA-API.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-mapping.txt
dmaengine.txt
dontdiff sparc: Kill PROM console driver. 2009-09-15 17:04:38 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt
feature-removal-schedule.txt hwmon: Delete deprecated FSC drivers 2009-09-23 22:59:42 +02:00
flexible-arrays.txt Document the flex_array library. 2009-09-10 14:33:36 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex: add requeue-pi documentation 2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
gcov.txt trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc 2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
gpio.txt gpiolib: allow poll() on value 2009-09-23 07:39:48 -07:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO
hw_random.txt
ics932s401
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support 2009-07-21 11:49:06 -07:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option. 2009-09-19 09:37:23 -07:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
IO-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt kernel-doc: allow multi-line declaration purpose descriptions 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp 2009-09-23 06:46:39 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt
keys.txt KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
kmemcheck.txt kmemcheck: update documentation 2009-07-01 22:36:22 +02:00
kmemleak.txt kmemleak: add clear command support 2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
kobject.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
kprobes.txt debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
kref.txt kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler() 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
ldm.txt
leds-class.txt led: document sysfs interface 2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
leds-lp3944.txt leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip 2009-06-23 20:21:38 +01:00
local_ops.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
lockdep-design.txt lockdep: Fix typos in documentation 2009-08-07 12:03:46 +02:00
lockstat.txt
logo.gif Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt
Makefile
ManagementStyle
mca.txt
md.txt
memory-barriers.txt sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives 2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
memory.txt Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendations 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt
nmi_watchdog.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt 2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
oops-tracing.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
rfkill.txt rfkill: export persistent attribute in sysfs 2009-06-19 11:50:18 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt futex: documentation: fix inconsistent description of futex list_op_pending 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: add boot_timesource sysfs attribute 2009-09-23 07:39:46 -07:00
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt
SM501.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Smack.txt
sparse.txt
spinlocks.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
SubmitChecklist block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense 2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
sysrq.txt sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent 2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
tomoyo.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt PCI/VGA: add VGA arbitration documentation 2009-09-09 13:29:42 -07:00
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
voyager.txt
zorro.txt