Commit 84ad6d70 authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Committed by Linus Torvalds

memcg: update menuconfig help text

page_cgroup is now allocated at boot and memmap doesn't includes pointer
for page_cgroup.  Fix the menu help text.
Reviewed-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
parent 99e87fd1
...@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR ...@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
select MM_OWNER select MM_OWNER
help help
Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
RSS memory. memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore. usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
at boot.
Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
sure you need the memory resource controller. sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
(and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
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