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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 7c163477fcd8..510d64570d60 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Brief summary of control files. (See sysctl's vm.swappiness) memory.move_charge_at_immigrate # set/show controls of moving charges memory.oom_control # set/show oom controls. + memory.numa_stat # show the number of memory usage per numa node 1. History @@ -464,6 +465,24 @@ value for efficient access. (Of course, when necessary, it's synchronized.) If you want to know more exact memory usage, you should use RSS+CACHE(+SWAP) value in memory.stat(see 5.2). +5.6 numa_stat + +This is similar to numa_maps but operates on a per-memcg basis. This is +useful for providing visibility into the numa locality information within +an memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical +node. One of the usecases is evaluating application performance by +combining this information with the application's cpu allocation. + +We export "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable" pages per-node for +each memcg. The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is: + +total=<total pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... +file=<total file pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... +anon=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... +unevictable=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... + +And we have total = file + anon + unevictable. + 6. Hierarchy support The memory controller supports a deep hierarchy and hierarchical accounting. |