Config.in: update options for cgroups and namespaces
authorLuka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
Fri, 3 May 2013 15:16:49 +0000 (15:16 +0000)
committerLuka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
Fri, 3 May 2013 15:16:49 +0000 (15:16 +0000)
Signed-off-by: Luka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 36539

Config.in

index e5833d2f7a11d7b0188d902e58956cf64bec1d12..5c154691dd2ca356486d20d462760d05de2122cf 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -304,148 +304,281 @@ menu "Global build settings"
        # CGROUP support symbols
        #
 
-       config KERNEL_FREEZER
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEVICE
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_CPUSETS
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_PROC_PID_CPUSET
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
-
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+       config KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               bool "Enable kernel cgroups"
+               default n
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+       if KERNEL_CGROUPS
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEBUG
+                       bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
+                         exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
+                         framework.
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_FREEZER
+                       bool
+                       default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER
+                       bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
+                         cgroup.
 
-       config KERNEL_CFS_BANDWIDTH
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
+               config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEVICE
+                       bool "Device controller for cgroups"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
+                         a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
 
-       config KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
+               config KERNEL_CPUSETS
+                       bool "Cpuset support"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
+                         allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
+                         Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
+                         This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
+
+               config KERNEL_PROC_PID_CPUSET
+                       bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_CPUSETS
+
+               config KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT
+                       bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
+                         total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
 
-       config KERNEL_RT_GROUP_SCHED
-               bool
-               default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
+               config KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
+                       bool "Resource counters"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         This option enables controller independent resource accounting
+                         infrastructure that works with cgroups.
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_MM_OWNER
+                       bool
+                       default y if KERNEL_MEMCG
 
-       config KERNEL_NET_CLS_CGROUP
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_MEMCG
+                       bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
+                       help
+                         Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
+                         memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
+
+                         Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
+                         associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
+                         20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
+                         usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
+                         at boot.
+
+                         Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
+                         sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
+                         this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
+                         disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
+                         (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
+
+                         This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
+                         could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
+
+               config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP
+                       bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_MEMCG
+                       help
+                         Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
+                         enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
+                         when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
+                         usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
+                         is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
+                         adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
+                         Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
+                         be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
+                         is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
+                         there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
+                         if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
+                         Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
+                         size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
+
+               config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
+                       bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP
+                       help
+                         Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
+                         a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
+                         which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
+                         and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
+                         parameter should have this option unselected.
+                         For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
+                         select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
+                         then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
+
+
+               config KERNEL_MEMCG_KMEM
+                       bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_MEMCG
+                       help
+                         The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
+                         the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
+                         fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
+                         Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
+                         the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
+                         will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
+
+               config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS
+                       bool
+                       default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
+
+               config KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
+                       bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
+                         threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
+                         designated cpu.
 
-       config KERNEL_NETPRIO_CGROUP
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               menuconfig KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
+                       bool "Group CPU scheduler"
+                       default n
+                       help
+                         This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
+                         bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
+                         tasks.
+
+               if KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
+
+                       config KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
+                               bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
+                               default n
+
+                       config KERNEL_CFS_BANDWIDTH
+                               bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
+                               default n
+                               depends on KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
+                               help
+                                 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
+                                 tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
+                                 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
+                                 restriction.
+                                 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
+
+                       config KERNEL_RT_GROUP_SCHED
+                               bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
+                               default n
+                               help
+                                 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
+                                 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
+                                 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
+                                 realtime bandwidth for them.
+
+               endif
+
+               config KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP
+                       bool "Block IO controller"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
+                         cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
+                         policies.
+
+                         Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
+                         control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
+                         to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
+                         block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
+
+                         This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
+                         One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
+                         enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
+                         CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
+                         CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
+
+               config KERNEL_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
+                       bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
+                       default n
+                       depends on KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP
+                       help
+                         Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
+                         files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
 
-       config KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_NET_CLS_CGROUP
+                       bool "Control Group Classifier"
+                       default y
 
-       config KERNEL_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
-               bool
-               default n if KERNEL_CGROUPS
-               depends on KERNEL_CGROUPS
+               config KERNEL_NETPRIO_CGROUP
+                       bool "Network priority cgroup"
+                       default y
 
-       config KERNEL_CGROUPS
-               bool "Enable kernel cgroups"
-               default n
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_DEVICE
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
-               select KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED
-               select KERNEL_NET_CLS_CGROUP
-               select KERNEL_NETPRIO_CGROUP
-               select KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP
+       endif
 
        #
        # Namespace support symbols
        #
 
-       config KERNEL_UTS_NS
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+       config KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+               bool "Enable kernel namespaces"
+               default n
 
-       config KERNEL_IPC_NS
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+       if KERNEL_NAMESPACES
 
-       config KERNEL_USER_NS
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+               config KERNEL_UTS_NS
+                       bool "UTS namespace"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         In this namespace tasks see different info provided
+                         with the uname() system call
 
-       config KERNEL_PID_NS
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+               config KERNEL_IPC_NS
+                       bool "IPC namespace"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
+                         different IPC objects in different namespaces.
 
-       config KERNEL_NET_NS
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+               config KERNEL_USER_NS
+                       bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
+                         to provide different user info for different servers.
 
-       config KERNEL_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
-               bool
-               depends on KERNEL_NAMESPACES
+               config KERNEL_PID_NS
+                       bool "PID Namespaces"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
+                         processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
+                         pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
 
-       config KERNEL_NAMESPACES
-               bool "Enable kernel namespaces"
-               default n
-               select KERNEL_UTS_NS
-               select KERNEL_IPC_NS
-               select KERNEL_USER_NS
-               select KERNEL_PID_NS
-               select KERNEL_NET_NS
-               select KERNEL_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
+               config KERNEL_NET_NS
+                       bool "Network namespace"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
+                         of the network stack.
+
+               config KERNEL_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
+                       bool "Support multiple instances of devpts"
+                       default y
+                       help
+                         Enable support for multiple instances of devpts filesystem.
+                         If you want to have isolated PTY namespaces (eg: in containers),
+                         say Y here. Otherwise, say N. If enabled, each mount of devpts
+                         filesystem with the '-o newinstance' option will create an
+                         independent PTY namespace.
 
+       endif
 
        comment "Package build options"