From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:21:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220811082132.GA17685@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YvS727RgUrpR4ueT@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:20:43AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Meminfo part says
> Node 0 DMA free:160kB boost:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15996kB managed:15360kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
>
> So the zone has 15MB of managed memory (by the page allocator), yet only
> 160kB is free early boot during the allocation. So it is mostly consumed
> by somebody. I haven't really checked by whom.
>
> Does that exaplain the above better?
Yes. I'm really curious who eats up all the GFP_DMA memory early during
boot, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-11 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 12:25 [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated Michal Hocko
2022-03-25 12:58 ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-25 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-25 16:54 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 9:52 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 14:59 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-03 15:05 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 15:32 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-03 15:44 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-04 11:01 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-04 12:01 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-05 12:34 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-05 17:37 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-09 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-10 1:32 ` Andrew Morton
2022-08-10 6:40 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-10 2:19 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-11 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-08-11 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
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