linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] memcg: update cgroup memory document

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Date:	Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:45:28 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, gthelen@...gle.com,
	yinghan@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] memcg: update cgroup memory document

> +dirty		- # of bytes that are waiting to get written back to the disk.
> +writeback	- # of bytes that are actively being written back to the disk.

This should be a bit more clear to the user:

dirty - # of bytes of file cache that are not in sync with the disk copy
writeback - # of bytes of file cache that are queued for syncing to disk

Thanks,
Fengguang

>  inactive_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on
>  		LRU list.
>  active_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory on active

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