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linux/Documentation/cgroups
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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00-INDEX trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
cgroups.txt cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
cpuacct.txt cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics 2009-04-01 16:49:38 +02:00
cpusets.txt cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaborately 2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
devices.txt trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections 2009-03-30 15:21:58 +02:00
freezer-subsystem.txt freezer_cg: disable writing freezer.state of root cgroup 2008-11-12 17:17:16 -08:00
memcg_test.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
memory.txt memory controller: soft limit documentation 2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
resource_counter.txt res_counter: update documentation 2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00