Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:26:33 +0200 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Documentation: memcg: future proof hierarchical statistics documentation |
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:08:06PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 04/24/2012 12:33 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > The hierarchical versions of per-memcg counters in memory.stat are all > > calculated the same way and are all named total_<counter>. > > > > Documenting the pattern is easier for maintenance than listing each > > counter twice. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> > > Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> > > Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> > > --- > > Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 15 ++++----------- > > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > index ab34ae5..6a066a2 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt > > @@ -432,17 +432,10 @@ hierarchical_memory_limit - # of bytes of memory limit with regard to hierarchy > > hierarchical_memsw_limit - # of bytes of memory+swap limit with regard to > > hierarchy under which memory cgroup is. > > > > -total_cache - sum of all children's "cache" > > -total_rss - sum of all children's "rss" > > -total_mapped_file - sum of all children's "cache" > > -total_pgpgin - sum of all children's "pgpgin" > > -total_pgpgout - sum of all children's "pgpgout" > > -total_swap - sum of all children's "swap" > > -total_inactive_anon - sum of all children's "inactive_anon" > > -total_active_anon - sum of all children's "active_anon" > > -total_inactive_file - sum of all children's "inactive_file" > > -total_active_file - sum of all children's "active_file" > > -total_unevictable - sum of all children's "unevictable" > > +total_<counter> - # hierarchical version of <counter>, which in > > + addition to the cgroup's own value includes the > > + sum of all hierarchical children's values of > > + <counter>, i.e. total_cache > > e.g., total_cache > > But how is a user or an admin supposed to know what all of the valid > total_<counter> names are? Is the entire list documented anywhere > else other than here (which is being deleted)?
Yes, right above where the context of this patch ends is the original list of counters, documenting cache, rss, mapped_file, etc.
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