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memcg: update document to mention that swapoff should be tested
authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:25:14 +0000 (14:25 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:04:44 +0000 (18:04 -0800)
Considering the recently found problem "memcg: fix refcnt handling at
swapoff", it's better to mention swapoff behavior in the memcg_test
document.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt

index 19533f93b7a2ac4175142947142569199dacc51f..523a9c16c400526e31d05a1aadee8164ef768800 100644 (file)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Memory Resource Controller(Memcg)  Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2008/12/15
-Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm.
+Last Updated: 2009/1/19
+Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
 
 Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
 is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
        # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
 
        and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.
+
+ 9.7 swapoff.
+       Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg,
+       call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path..
+       It's worth to be tested explicitly.
+
+       For example, test like following is good.
+       (Shell-A)
+       # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory
+       # mkdir /cgroup/test
+       # echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
+       # echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks
+       Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps.
+       (Shell-B)
+       # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
+       # /sbin/swapoff -a
+       # rmdir /test/cgroup
+       # kill malloc task.
+
+       Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.