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Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status

Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the
documentation.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Vladimir Davydov 10 жил өмнө
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Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt

@@ -275,11 +275,6 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered.
 
 
 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)
 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)
 
 
-WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means allocation
-	 attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there are plenty of
-	 kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option unusable in real
-	 life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development purposes.
-
 With the Kernel memory extension, the Memory Controller is able to limit
 With the Kernel memory extension, the Memory Controller is able to limit
 the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally
 the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally
 different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it
 different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it
@@ -345,6 +340,9 @@ set:
     In this case, the admin could set up K so that the sum of all groups is
     In this case, the admin could set up K so that the sum of all groups is
     never greater than the total memory, and freely set U at the cost of his
     never greater than the total memory, and freely set U at the cost of his
     QoS.
     QoS.
+    WARNING: In the current implementation, memory reclaim will NOT be
+    triggered for a cgroup when it hits K while staying below U, which makes
+    this setup impractical.
 
 
     U != 0, K >= U:
     U != 0, K >= U:
     Since kmem charges will also be fed to the user counter and reclaim will be
     Since kmem charges will also be fed to the user counter and reclaim will be

+ 0 - 6
init/Kconfig

@@ -1032,12 +1032,6 @@ config MEMCG_KMEM
 	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
 	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
 	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
 	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
 
 
-	  WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means
-	  allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
-	  are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
-	  unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
-	  purposes.
-
 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
 	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
 	bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
 	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
 	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE