Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S939033AbXHMGSs (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757548AbXHMGSl (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:18:41 -0400 Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:48469 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756303AbXHMGSk (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46BFF75F.9000900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:47:03 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Organization: IBM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: YAMAMOTO Takashi CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, menage@google.com, xemul@openvz.org Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH 8/9] Memory controller add switch to control what type of pages to limit (v4) References: <46BFEE72.9080209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070813060427.0334E1BF9D8@siro.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070813060427.0334E1BF9D8@siro.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 43 YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: >> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: >>>> Choose if we want cached pages to be accounted or not. By default both >>>> are accounted for. A new set of tunables are added. >>>> >>>> echo -n 1 > mem_control_type >>>> >>>> switches the accounting to account for only mapped pages >>>> >>>> echo -n 2 > mem_control_type >>>> >>>> switches the behaviour back >>> MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_ALL is 3, not 2. >>> >> Thanks, I'll fix the comment on the top. >> >>> YAMAMOTO Takashi >>> >>>> +enum { >>>> + MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_UNSPEC = 0, >>>> + MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_MAPPED, >>>> + MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_CACHED, > > what's MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_CACHED, btw? > it seems that nothing distinguishes it from MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_MAPPED. > The important types are currently MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_MAPPED and MEM_CONTAINER_TYPE_ALL. I added the types for future use (may be for finer accounting of types, later). > YAMAMOTO Takashi -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/