summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index e2bc132..8af4ad1 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -573,19 +573,15 @@ an memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical
node. One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by
combining this information with the application's CPU allocation.
-Each memcg's numa_stat file includes "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable"
-per-node page counts including "hierarchical_<counter>" which sums up all
-hierarchical children's values in addition to the memcg's own value.
-
-The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is:
+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> ...
-hierarchical_<counter>=<counter pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
-The "total" count is sum of file + anon + unevictable.
+And we have total = file + anon + unevictable.
6. Hierarchy support