Commit 0835ab53 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds

cgroup memory controller: document huge memory/cache overhead in Kconfig

Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

I was a little surprised that 2.6.25-rc* increased struct page for the
memory controller.  At least on many x86-64 machines it will not fit into a
single cache line now anymore and also costs considerable amounts of RAM.
At earlier review I remembered asking for a external data structure for
this.

It's also quite unobvious that a innocent looking Kconfig option with a
single line Kconfig description has such a negative effect.

This patch attempts to document these disadvantages at least so that users
configuring their kernel can make a informed decision.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 00d62961
......@@ -394,6 +394,14 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_CONT
Provides a memory controller that manages both page cache and
RSS memory.
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
sure you need the memory controller.
config PROC_PID_CPUSET
bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
depends on CPUSETS
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