On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:40:33 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:15:36 +0900
> Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > This is new version of swapcgroup.
> > 
> > Major changes from previous version
> > - Rebased on 2.6.26-rc5-mm3.
> >   The new -mm has been released, but these patches
> >   can be applied on 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 too with only some offset warnings.
> >   I tested these patches on 2.6.26-rc5-mm3 with some fixes about memory,
> >   and it seems to work fine.
> > - (NEW) Implemented force_empty.
> >   Currently, it simply uncharges all the charges from the group.
> > 
> > Patches
> > - [1/5] add cgroup files
> > - [2/5] add a member to swap_info_struct
> > - [3/5] implement charge and uncharge
> > - [4/5] modify vm_swap_full() 
> > - [5/5] implement force_empty
> > 
> > ToDo(in my thought. Feel free to add some others here.)
> > - need some documentation
> >   Add to memory.txt? or create a new documentation file?
> > 
> Maybe new documentation file is better. 
> 
O.K.

> > - add option to disable only this feature
> >   I'm wondering if this option is needed.
> >   memcg has already the boot option to disable it.
> >   Is there any case where memory should be accounted but swap should not?
> 
> On x86-32, area for vmalloc() is very small and array of swap_info_struct[]
> will use much amount of it. If vmalloc() area is too small, the kernel cannot
> load modules.
> 
It would be critical.
I'll add an option.


Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.
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