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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index dec99455321f..5681e2fa1496 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ Table 1-3: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.22-rc3) priority priority level nice nice level num_threads number of threads + it_real_value (obsolete, always 0) start_time time the process started after system boot vsize virtual memory size rss resident set memory size @@ -857,6 +858,45 @@ CPUs. The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, waiting for I/O to complete. +1.9 Ext4 file system parameters +------------------------------ +Ext4 file system have one directory per partition under /proc/fs/ext4/ +# ls /proc/fs/ext4/hdc/ +group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req +stats stream_req + +mb_groups: +This file gives the details of mutiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks + +mb_history: +Multiblock allocation history. + +stats: +This file indicate whether the multiblock allocator should start collecting +statistics. The statistics are shown during unmount + +group_prealloc: +The multiblock allocator normalize the block allocation request to +group_prealloc filesystem blocks if we don't have strip value set. +The stripe value can be specified at mount time or during mke2fs. + +max_to_scan: +How long multiblock allocator can look for a best extent (in found extents) + +min_to_scan: +How long multiblock allocator must look for a best extent + +order2_req: +Multiblock allocator use 2^N search using buddies only for requests greater +than or equal to order2_req. The request size is specfied in file system +blocks. A value of 2 indicate only if the requests are greater than or equal +to 4 blocks. + +stream_req: +Files smaller than stream_req are served by the stream allocator, whose +purpose is to pack requests as close each to other as possible to +produce smooth I/O traffic. Avalue of 16 indicate that file smaller than 16 +filesystem block size will use group based preallocation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary @@ -989,6 +1029,14 @@ nr_inodes Denotes the number of inodes the system has allocated. This number will grow and shrink dynamically. +nr_open +------- + +Denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can +allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be +enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE +resource limit. + nr_free_inodes -------------- @@ -1095,13 +1143,6 @@ check the amount of free space (value is in seconds). Default settings are: 4, resume it if we have a value of 3 or more percent; consider information about the amount of free space valid for 30 seconds -audit_argv_kb -------------- - -The file contains a single value denoting the limit on the argv array size -for execve (in KiB). This limit is only applied when system call auditing for -execve is enabled, otherwise the value is ignored. - ctrl-alt-del ------------ @@ -1282,13 +1323,28 @@ for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up. +highmem_is_dirtyable +-------------------- + +Only present if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set. + +This defaults to 0 (false), meaning that the ratios set above are calculated +as a percentage of lowmem only. This protects against excessive scanning +in page reclaim, swapping and general VM distress. + +Setting this to 1 can be useful on 32 bit machines where you want to make +random changes within an MMAPed file that is larger than your available +lowmem without causing large quantities of random IO. Is is safe if the +behavior of all programs running on the machine is known and memory will +not be otherwise stressed. + legacy_va_layout ---------------- If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap mmap layout - the kernel will use the legacy (2.4) layout for all processes. -lower_zone_protection +lowmem_reserve_ratio --------------------- For some specialised workloads on highmem machines it is dangerous for @@ -1308,25 +1364,71 @@ captured into pinned user memory. mechanism will also defend that region from allocations which could use highmem or lowmem). -The `lower_zone_protection' tunable determines how aggressive the kernel is -in defending these lower zones. The default value is zero - no -protection at all. +The `lowmem_reserve_ratio' tunable determines how aggressive the kernel is +in defending these lower zones. If you have a machine which uses highmem or ISA DMA and your applications are using mlock(), or if you are running with no swap then -you probably should increase the lower_zone_protection setting. - -The units of this tunable are fairly vague. It is approximately equal -to "megabytes," so setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 -megabytes of the lowmem zone from user allocations. It will also make -those 100 megabytes unavailable for use by applications and by -pagecache, so there is a cost. - -The effects of this tunable may be observed by monitoring -/proc/meminfo:LowFree. Write a single huge file and observe the point -at which LowFree ceases to fall. - -A reasonable value for lower_zone_protection is 100. +you probably should change the lowmem_reserve_ratio setting. + +The lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array. You can see them by reading this file. +- +% cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio +256 256 32 +- +Note: # of this elements is one fewer than number of zones. Because the highest + zone's value is not necessary for following calculation. + +But, these values are not used directly. The kernel calculates # of protection +pages for each zones from them. These are shown as array of protection pages +in /proc/zoneinfo like followings. (This is an example of x86-64 box). +Each zone has an array of protection pages like this. + +- +Node 0, zone DMA + pages free 1355 + min 3 + low 3 + high 4 + : + : + numa_other 0 + protection: (0, 2004, 2004, 2004) + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + pagesets + cpu: 0 pcp: 0 + : +- +These protections are added to score to judge whether this zone should be used +for page allocation or should be reclaimed. + +In this example, if normal pages (index=2) are required to this DMA zone and +pages_high is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should not be +used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2] +(4 + 2004 = 2008). If this protection value is 0, this zone would be used for +normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0] +(=0) is used. + +zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following exprssion. + +(i < j): + zone[i]->protection[j] + = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) + / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; +(i = j): + (should not be protected. = 0; +(i > j): + (not necessary, but looks 0) + +The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are + 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) + 32 (others). +As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. +256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present +pages of higher zones on the node. + +If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. +The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%). page-cluster ------------ @@ -1880,11 +1982,6 @@ max_size Maximum size of the routing cache. Old entries will be purged once the cache reached has this size. -max_delay, min_delay --------------------- - -Delays for flushing the routing cache. - redirect_load, redirect_number ------------------------------ |