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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
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parent3dc43e3e4d0b52197d3205214fe8f162f9e0c334 (diff)
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt1
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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
 
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