From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:42:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719084257.2qqafzcteqwkb2xd@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180718133620.6205-5-vbabka@suse.cz>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:36:17PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> We can use the newly introduced kmalloc-reclaimable-X caches, to allocate
> external names in dcache, which will take care of the proper accounting
> automatically, and also improve anti-fragmentation page grouping.
>
> This effectively reverts commit f1782c9bc547 ("dcache: account external names
> as indirectly reclaimable memory") and instead passes __GFP_RECLAIMABLE to
> kmalloc(). The accounting thus moves from NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES to
> NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE, which is also considered in MemAvailable calculation and
> overcommit decisions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-18 13:36 [PATCH v3 0/7] kmalloc-reclaimable caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] mm, slab: combine kmalloc_caches and kmalloc_dma_caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 8:10 ` Mel Gorman
2018-07-20 9:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-30 15:38 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] mm, slab/slub: introduce kmalloc-reclaimable caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 8:23 ` Mel Gorman
2018-07-20 9:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 18:16 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-07-19 18:16 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-07-20 9:35 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-30 15:41 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] mm, slab: allocate off-slab freelists as reclaimable when appropriate Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 8:35 ` Mel Gorman
2018-07-20 9:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-30 15:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 8:42 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-30 15:46 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] mm, proc: add KReclaimable to /proc/meminfo Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-18 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] mm, slab: shorten kmalloc cache names for large sizes Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 8:46 ` Mel Gorman
2018-07-30 15:48 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-07-31 8:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-19 19:53 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] kmalloc-reclaimable caches Roman Gushchin
2018-07-19 19:53 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-07-20 9:45 ` Vlastimil Babka
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