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: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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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