summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>2011-12-11 21:47:06 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-12 19:04:11 -0500
commit3aaabe2342c36bf48567b88fa78b819eee14bb5e (patch)
tree1364c84c53ba6382f9a9df9d6f42a3bc37427d05 /Documentation
parent3dc43e3e4d0b52197d3205214fe8f162f9e0c334 (diff)
tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limit
This patch uses the "tcp.limit_in_bytes" field of the kmem_cgroup to effectively control the amount of kernel memory pinned by a cgroup. This value is ignored in the root cgroup, and in all others, caps the value specified by the admin in the net namespaces' view of tcp_sysctl_mem. If namespaces are being used, the admin is allowed to set a value bigger than cgroup's maximum, the same way it is allowed to set pretty much unlimited values in a real box. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 687dea5bf1fd..1c9779a74a25 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.independent_kmem_limit # select whether or not kernel memory limits are
independent of user limits
+ memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes # set/show hard limit for tcp buf memory
1. History