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author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2012-08-22 12:54:55 +0100 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2012-08-22 12:55:43 +0100 |
commit | 2361f738b67ab7f1152187fa3d321a09b7c95c09 (patch) | |
tree | eddf2b958215b668b9b871b6b59bc76c67a47751 /Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt | |
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Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Having missed the merge window, update to 3.6-rc2 to avoid conflicts with
new patches.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a9faaca1f029 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +HugeTLB Controller +------------------- + +The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and +enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't +support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, +the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages +beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much +HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. + +HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem. + +# mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup + +With the above step, the initial or the parent HugeTLB group becomes +visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in +the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup. + +New groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup. + +# cd /sys/fs/cgroup +# mkdir g1 +# echo $$ > g1/tasks + +The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell +process (bash) into it. + +Brief summary of control files + + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit + +For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control +files include: + +hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.failcnt +hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.failcnt |