[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: fix memtune's help message for swap_hard_limit

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Mar 3 06:10:54 UTC 2011


On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:02:32 +0800
Osier Yang <jyang at redhat.com> wrote:

> 于 2011年03月03日 13:25, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 写道:
> > I found this when I used virsh memtune...
> 
> Happened to see a bug for this yesterday.
> 
Oh ;)

> > BTW, how to fix http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html 's memtune description ?
> 
> How about be consitent with what cgroup doc says? :-)
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt;h=b6ed61c958560d987e40cc28a9eca7f7d12401a1;hb=HEAD
> 

 memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes     # show current memory+Swap usage
 memory.limit_in_bytes           # set/show limit of memory usage
 memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes     # set/show limit of memory+Swap usage
 memory.failcnt                  # show the number of memory usage hits limits

Maybe nice. 


> >
> > ==
> >> From 541ae04430f376e8168b413a20b35dce49779816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:24:45 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH 6/6] fix virsh commands' message for memtune'swap_hard_limit.
> >
> > cgroup's /cgroup/memory/memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes is not
> > for limitinit 'swap' but for 'memory+swap' (then, it's memsw)
> > (So, this number cannot be smaller than memory.limit_in_bytes)
> 
> Yes, that's what BZ about.
> 
> >
> > Note:
> > If other hypervisors than Linux support this and meaning is
> > not same as memory+swap, the name swap_hard_limit will have confusion.
> 
> Currently, only LXC and QEMU driver support "swap_hard_limit"
> using cgroup, ESX just support setting "min_guarantee", so
> perhaps renaming "swap_hard_limit" to something like
> "memswap_hard_limit" is a good idea?
> 

Yes, I think it's better. Should I prepare patches ? or you'll do ?

Thanks,
-Kame




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