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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/8] kstaled: documentation and config option.
On 09/16/2011 11:39 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Extend memory cgroup documentation do describe the optional idle page
> tracking features, and add the corresponding configuration option.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse<walken@google.com>

> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -370,3 +370,13 @@ config CLEANCACHE
> in a negligible performance hit.
>
> If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
> +
> +config KSTALED
> + depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR

Looking at patch #3, I wonder if this needs to be dependent
on 64 bit, or at least make sure this is not selected when
a user builds a 32 bit kernel with NUMA.

The reason is that on a 32 bit system we could run out of
page flags + zone bits + node bits.

> + bool "Per-cgroup idle page tracking"
> + help
> + This feature allows the kernel to report the amount of user pages
> + in a cgroup that have not been touched in a given time.
> + This information may be used to size the cgroups and/or for
> + job placement within a compute cluster.
> + See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt for a more complete description.



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