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author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2011-07-26 16:08:26 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-26 16:49:42 -0700 |
commit | 82f9d486e59f588c7d100865c36510644abda356 (patch) | |
tree | 266f3dcf4f57538196bddd77a129adfb2752335b /Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | |
parent | 108b6a78463bb8c7163e4f9779f36ad8bbade334 (diff) | |
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memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat
The commit log of 0ae5e89c60c9 ("memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim
in...") says it adds scanning stats to memory.stat file. But it doesn't
because we considered we needed to make a concensus for such new APIs.
This patch is a trial to add memory.scan_stat. This shows
- the number of scanned pages(total, anon, file)
- the number of rotated pages(total, anon, file)
- the number of freed pages(total, anon, file)
- the number of elaplsed time (including sleep/pause time)
for both of direct/soft reclaim.
The biggest difference with oringinal Ying's one is that this file
can be reset by some write, as
# echo 0 ...../memory.scan_stat
Example of output is here. This is a result after make -j 6 kernel
under 300M limit.
[kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.scan_stat
[kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat
scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864
scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629
scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235
rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974
rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968
rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006
freed_pages_by_limit 2318492
freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052
freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440
elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101
scanned_pages_by_system 0
scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0
scanned_file_pages_by_system 0
rotated_pages_by_system 0
rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0
rotated_file_pages_by_system 0
freed_pages_by_system 0
freed_anon_pages_by_system 0
freed_file_pages_by_system 0
elapsed_ns_by_system 0
scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864
scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629
scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235
rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974
rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968
rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006
freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492
freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052
freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440
elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101
scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
total_xxxx is for hierarchy management.
This will be useful for further memcg developments and need to be
developped before we do some complicated rework on LRU/softlimit
management.
This patch adds a new struct memcg_scanrecord into scan_control struct.
sc->nr_scanned at el is not designed for exporting information. For
example, nr_scanned is reset frequentrly and incremented +2 at scanning
mapped pages.
To avoid complexity, I added a new param in scan_control which is for
exporting scanning score.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 85 |
1 files changed, 84 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 06eb6d957c83..6f3c598971fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. 5.2 stat file -memory.stat file includes following statistics +5.2.1 memory.stat file includes following statistics # per-memory cgroup local status cache - # of bytes of page cache memory. @@ -438,6 +438,89 @@ Note: file_mapped is accounted only when the memory cgroup is owner of page cache.) +5.2.2 memory.vmscan_stat + +memory.vmscan_stat includes statistics information for memory scanning and +freeing, reclaiming. The statistics shows memory scanning information since +memory cgroup creation and can be reset to 0 by writing 0 as + + #echo 0 > ../memory.vmscan_stat + +This file contains following statistics. + +[param]_[file_or_anon]_pages_by_[reason]_[under_heararchy] +[param]_elapsed_ns_by_[reason]_[under_hierarchy] + +For example, + + scanned_file_pages_by_limit indicates the number of scanned + file pages at vmscan. + +Now, 3 parameters are supported + + scanned - the number of pages scanned by vmscan + rotated - the number of pages activated at vmscan + freed - the number of pages freed by vmscan + +If "rotated" is high against scanned/freed, the memcg seems busy. + +Now, 2 reason are supported + + limit - the memory cgroup's limit + system - global memory pressure + softlimit + (global memory pressure not under softlimit is not handled now) + +When under_hierarchy is added in the tail, the number indicates the +total memcg scan of its children and itself. + +elapsed_ns is a elapsed time in nanosecond. This may include sleep time +and not indicates CPU usage. So, please take this as just showing +latency. + +Here is an example. + +# cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat +scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864 +scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629 +scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235 +rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974 +rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968 +rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006 +freed_pages_by_limit 2318492 +freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052 +freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440 +elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101 +scanned_pages_by_system 0 +scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0 +scanned_file_pages_by_system 0 +rotated_pages_by_system 0 +rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0 +rotated_file_pages_by_system 0 +freed_pages_by_system 0 +freed_anon_pages_by_system 0 +freed_file_pages_by_system 0 +elapsed_ns_by_system 0 +scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864 +scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629 +scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235 +rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974 +rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968 +rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006 +freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492 +freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052 +freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440 +elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101 +scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 +elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 + 5.3 swappiness Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. |