Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4 3/3] cgroup: replace unified-hierarchy.txt with a proper cgroup v2 documentation

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Oct 22 2015 - 10:36:19 EST


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:34:27AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:23:54AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> [..]
> > +5-3-2. Writeback
> > +
> > +Writeback of page cache manages the dirty memory ratio and is an
> > +integral part of memory management. The io controller, in conjunction
> > +with the memory controller, implements control of page cache writeback
> > +IOs. The memory controller defines the memory domain that dirty
> > +memory ratio is calculated and maintained for and the io controller
> > +defines the io domain which writes out dirty pages for the memory
> > +domain.
>
> Hi Tejun,
>
> Glad that finally devel flag will go away and new shiny unified hierarchy
> can be used using cgroup2 fstype. Thanks for all this hard work.
>
> Will it make sense to also talk about what filesystems currently writeback
> cgroup work with. IIUC, currently this works with ext2 and there are plans to
> make it work with other filesystems.

It works with ext2 and 4 and btrfs. Will document it. Thanks.

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tejun
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