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@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
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depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
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select MM_OWNER
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help
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- Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
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- RSS memory.
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+ Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
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+ memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
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Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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- associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
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- and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
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- systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
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+ associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
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+ 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
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+ usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
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+ at boot.
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Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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- sure you need the memory resource controller.
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+ sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
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+ this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
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+ disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
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+ (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
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This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
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could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
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