Provide distinct cgroup VM overcommit accounting and handling using the memory
resource controller.
Patchset against latest Linus git tree.
This patchset allows to set different per-cgroup overcommit rules and,
according to them, it's possible to return a memory allocation failure (ENOMEM)
to the applications, instead of always triggering the OOM killer via
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() when cgroup memory limits are exceeded.
Default overcommit settings are taken from vm.overcommit_memory and
vm.overcommit_ratio sysctl values. Child cgroups initially inherits the VM
overcommit parent's settings.
Cgroup overcommit settings can be overridden using memory.overcommit_memory and
memory.overcommit_ratio files under the cgroup filesystem.
For example:
1. Initialize a cgroup with 50MB memory limit:
# mount -t cgroup none /cgroups -o memory
# mkdir /cgroups/0
# /bin/echo $$ > /cgroups/0/tasks
# /bin/echo 50M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
2. Use the "never overcommit" policy with 50% ratio:
# /bin/echo 2 > /cgroups/0/memory.overcommit_memory
# /bin/echo 50 > /cgroups/0/memory.overcommit_ratio
Assuming we have no swap space, cgroup 0 can allocate up to 25MB of virtual
memory. If that limit is exceeded all the further allocation attempts made by
userspace applications will receive a -ENOMEM.
4. Show committed VM statistics:
# cat /cgroups/0/memory.overcommit_as
CommitLimit: 25600 kB
Committed_AS: 9844 kB
5. Use "always overcommmit":
# /bin/echo 1 > /cgroups/0/memory.overcommit_memory
This is very similar to the default memory controller configuration: overcommit
is allowed, but when there's no more available memory oom-killer is invoked.
TODO:
- shared memory is not taken in account (i.e. files in tmpfs)
-Andrea
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