On Thu 12-04-18 15:57:03, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 08:52:52AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > > We would be just making the reported values more precise wrt reality. > > It depends on if we believe that only slab memory can be reclaimable > or not. If yes, this is true, otherwise not. > > My guess is that some drivers (e.g. networking) might have buffers, > which are reclaimable under mempressure, and are allocated using > the page allocator. But I have to look closer... Well, we have many direct page allocator users which are not accounted in vmstat. Some of those use their specific accounting (e.g. network buffers, some fs metadata a many others). In the ideal world MM layer would know about those but... Anyway, this particular case is quite clear, no? We _use_ kmalloc so this is slab allocator. We just misaccount it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
