Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:08:06 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Documentation: memcg: future proof hierarchical statistics documentation |
| |
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)?
> # The following additional stats are dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. >
-- ~Randy
| |