The memory control group (memcg) quality of service (QoS) feature can be used to control
locks and limits on memory usage in a memcg. In community versions of the Linux kernel,
this feature is supported by only the cgroup v2 interface. In Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 kernel version 4.19.91-18.al7 and later, this feature is also supported by the cgroup v1 interface.
Background
In the Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 kernel, the memcg QoS feature is enabled in the cgroup v1 interface by default. For more information about memcg QoS, visit Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. You can obtain the kernel document from the Debuginfo package and source code package
of Alibaba Cloud Linux 2. For more information, see Use Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.
Precautions
When you use the memcg QoS feature of the cgroup v1 interface, we recommend that you place your tasks in a memcg leaf node such as /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/<intermediate node>/<leaf node>/tasks.
Interface description
This section describes the interfaces that implement the memcg QoS feature of the
cgroup v1 interface in the Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 kernel.
| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| memory.min | Absolutely locks the memory. Memory locked by this interface cannot be reclaimed.
You can perform the following read and write operations on this interface:
|
| memory.low | Relatively locks the memory. Memory locked by this interface may be partially reclaimed
if the system has no other memory to reclaim. You can perform the following read and
write operations on this interface:
|
| memory.high | Limits the memory usage. You can perform the following read and write operations on
this interface:
|
Examples
Create a test memcg in the memcg mount directory such as /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/. Make sure that the memcg contains the memory.min, memory.low, and memory.high interfaces.
Example command:
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
ls /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test | grep -E "memory.(min|low|high)"Example output:
memory.high
memory.low
memory.min