memory controller: soft limit interface
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits. Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported. Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added. Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.
Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter. Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here. Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index eb95718..4ad3e6b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2123,6 +2123,20 @@
else
ret = mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(memcg, val);
break;
+ case RES_SOFT_LIMIT:
+ ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ /*
+ * For memsw, soft limits are hard to implement in terms
+ * of semantics, for now, we support soft limits for
+ * control without swap
+ */
+ if (type == _MEM)
+ ret = res_counter_set_soft_limit(&memcg->res, val);
+ else
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL; /* should be BUG() ? */
break;
@@ -2376,6 +2390,12 @@
.read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read,
},
{
+ .name = "soft_limit_in_bytes",
+ .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_MEM, RES_SOFT_LIMIT),
+ .write_string = mem_cgroup_write,
+ .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read,
+ },
+ {
.name = "failcnt",
.private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_MEM, RES_FAILCNT),
.trigger = mem_cgroup_reset,