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Applications can currently escape their cgroup memory containment when zswap is enabled. This patch adds per-cgroup tracking and limiting of zswap backend memory to rectify this. The existing cgroup2 memory.stat file is extended to show zswap statistics analogous to what's in meminfo and vmstat. Furthermore, two new control files, memory.zswap.current and memory.zswap.max, are added to allow tuning zswap usage on a per-workload basis. This is important since not all workloads benefit from zswap equally; some even suffer compared to disk swap when memory contents don't compress well. The optimal size of the zswap pool, and the threshold for writeback, also depends on the size of the workload's warm set. The implementation doesn't use a traditional page_counter transaction. zswap is unconventional as a memory consumer in that we only know the amount of memory to charge once expensive compression has occurred. If zwap is disabled or the limit is already exceeded we obviously don't want to compress page upon page only to reject them all. Instead, the limit is checked against current usage, then we compress and charge. This allows some limit overrun, but not enough to matter in practice. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix for CONFIG_SLOB builds] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YnwD14zxYjUJPc2w@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: opt out of cgroups v1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yn6it9mBYFA+/lTb@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510152847.230957-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.