memcg: swappiness
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:08:24 +0000 (18:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:31:08 +0000 (08:31 -0800)
commita7885eb8ad465ec9db99ac5b5e6680f0ca8e11c8
tree4f3ffaa399fbc16003cc1787228f10543dc9c3ef
parent2733c06ac864ed40b9dfbbd5270f3f16949bd4a1
memcg: swappiness

Currently, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness can change swappiness ratio for global
reclaim.  However, memcg reclaim doesn't have tuning parameter for itself.

In general, the optimal swappiness depend on workload.  (e.g.  hpc
workload need to low swappiness than the others.)

Then, per cgroup swappiness improve administrator tunability.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
include/linux/swap.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/vmscan.c