From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
vinayak menon <vinayakm.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:59:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04bd46b5-b67b-9b0c-edb9-7e92427b9cef@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425155539.GB8546@bombadil.infradead.org>
On 04/25/2018 05:55 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 05:43:39PM +0530, vinayak menon wrote:
>> One such case I have encountered is that of the ION page pool. The page pool
>> registers a shrinker. When not in any memory pressure page pool can go high
>> and thus cause an mmap to fail when OVERCOMMIT_GUESS is set. I can send
>> a patch to account ION page pool pages in NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES.
>
> Why not just account them as NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE? I know it's not slab, but
> other than that mis-naming, it seems like it'll do the right thing.
Hm I think it would be confusing for anyone trying to correlate the
number with /proc/slabinfo - the numbers there wouldn't add up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-05 13:37 [PATCH 0/3] indirectly reclaimable memory Roman Gushchin
2018-03-05 13:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES Roman Gushchin
2018-04-11 13:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-11 13:56 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-12 6:52 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-12 11:52 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-12 14:38 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-12 14:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-12 14:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-13 6:59 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 12:13 ` vinayak menon
2018-04-25 3:49 ` Vijayanand Jitta
2018-04-25 12:52 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-25 15:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-25 16:48 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-25 17:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-25 17:23 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-25 15:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-25 16:59 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2018-03-05 13:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: add indirectly reclaimable memory to MemAvailable Roman Gushchin
2018-03-05 13:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-03-05 13:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as available in MemAvailable Roman Gushchin
2018-03-05 13:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory Roman Gushchin
2018-03-12 21:17 ` Al Viro
2018-03-12 22:36 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-03-13 0:45 ` Al Viro
2018-04-05 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-06 10:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-13 13:35 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-13 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 14:20 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-13 14:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 14:37 ` Johannes Weiner
2018-04-16 11:41 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-16 12:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-16 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-16 19:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-17 6:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-16 13:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-17 11:24 ` Roman Gushchin
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