linux/Documentation/cgroups
Johannes Weiner 3dae7fec5e mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control
Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a
memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy.
Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned on
hierarchy mode.  In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default, this
restriction disables the tunables entirely.

But there is no good reason for this restriction.  The settings for
swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit
triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in the
hierarchy tree.

Allow setting swappiness on any group.  The knob on the root memcg
already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well.

Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
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00-INDEX Documentation: cgroup: add documentation for net_cls cgroups. 2013-04-08 16:55:28 -04:00
blkio-controller.txt blk-throttle: implement proper hierarchy support 2013-05-14 13:52:38 -07:00
cgroups.txt memcg: rename cgroup_event to mem_cgroup_event 2013-11-22 18:20:44 -05:00
cpuacct.txt Documentation: fix echo command in cgroups/cpuacct.txt 2011-07-23 10:58:08 -07:00
cpusets.txt sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
devices.txt devcg: propagate local changes down the hierarchy 2013-03-20 07:50:21 -07:00
freezer-subsystem.txt cgroup_freezer: implement proper hierarchy support 2012-11-09 10:52:30 -08:00
hugetlb.txt hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controller documentation 2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
memcg_test.txt memcg: rename high level charging functions 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
memory.txt mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
net_cls.txt netfilter: x_tables: lightweight process control group matching 2014-01-03 23:41:44 +01:00
net_prio.txt netprio_cgroup: allow nesting and inherit config on cgroup creation 2012-11-22 07:32:47 -08:00
resource_counter.txt res_counter: remove interface for locked charging and uncharging 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00