• Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar
    cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications · 0dea1168
    Kirill A. Shutemov authored
    This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups
    and implements memory notifications on top of it.
    
    It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage.
    
    Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs:
    
    Root cgroup before changes:
    	make -j2  506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total
    Non-root cgroup before changes:
    	make -j2  507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total
    Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
    	make -j2  507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total
    Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
    	make -j2  507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total
    Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
    	make -j2  506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total
    Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
    	make -j2  507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total
    
    This patch:
    
    Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup.
    
    To register new notification handler you need:
    - create an eventfd;
    - open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and
      unregister_event() must be defined for the control file;
    - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control.
      Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation;
    
    eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the
    cgroup is removed.
    
    To unregister notification handler just close eventfd.
    
    If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to
    implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the
    struct cftype.
    
    [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
    Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
    Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
    Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com>
    Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
    Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    0dea1168
Kconfig 39.3 KB