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Documentation / cgroups / hugetlb.txt


Based on kernel version 4.3. Page generated on 2015-11-02 12:44 EST.

1	HugeTLB Controller
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3	
4	The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
5	enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
6	support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that,
7	the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages
8	beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much
9	HugeTLB pages it would require for its use.
10	
11	HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
12	
13	# mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup
14	
15	With the above step, the initial or the parent HugeTLB group becomes
16	visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in
17	the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
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19	New groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup.
20	
21	# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
22	# mkdir g1
23	# echo $$ > g1/tasks
24	
25	The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
26	process (bash) into it.
27	
28	Brief summary of control files
29	
30	 hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes     # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage
31	 hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb  usage recorded
32	 hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes     # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
33	 hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt		   # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit
34	
35	For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control
36	files include:
37	
38	hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes
39	hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes
40	hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes
41	hugetlb.16GB.failcnt
42	hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes
43	hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes
44	hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes
45	hugetlb.16MB.failcnt
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