[PATCH] meminfo: show /proc/meminfo base on container's memcg

[Kamezawa Hiroyuki]

(2012/05/31 6:38), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012, Gao feng wrote:
>
>> cgroup and namespaces are used for creating containers but some of
>> information is not isolated/virtualized. This patch is for isolating /proc/meminfo
>> information per container, which uses memory cgroup. By this, top,free
>> and other tools under container can work as expected(show container's
>> usage) without changes.
>>
>> This patch is a trial to show memcg's info in /proc/meminfo if 'current'
>> is under a memcg other than root.
>>
>> we show /proc/meminfo base on container's memory cgroup.
>> because there are lots of info can't be provide by memcg, and
>> the cmds such as top, free just use some entries of /proc/meminfo,
>> we replace those entries by memory cgroup.
>>
>> if container has no memcg, we will show host's /proc/meminfo
>> as before.
>>
>> there is no idea how to deal with Buffers,I just set it zero,
>> It's strange if Buffers bigger than MemTotal.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gao feng<gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> Nack, this type of thing was initially tried with cpusets when a thread
> was bound to a subset of nodes, i.e. only show the total amount of memory
> spanned by those nodes.
>

Hmm. How about having memory.meminfo under memory cgroup directory and
use it with bind mount ? (container tools will be able to help it.)
Then, container applications(top,free,etc..) can read the values they wants.
If admins don't want it, they'll not use bind mount.

Thanks,
-Kame