On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:08:11PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 02/16/2018 12:15 PM, Christopher Lameter wrote: > >> This has the potential to be really confusing to apps. If this memory > >> is now not available to normal apps, they might plow into the invisible > >> memory limits and get into nasty reclaim scenarios. > >> Shouldn't this subtract the memory for MemFree and friends? > > Ok certainly we could do that. But on the other hand the memory is > > available if those subsystems ask for the right order. Its not clear to me > > what the right way of handling this is. Right now it adds the reserved > > pages to the watermarks. But then under some circumstances the memory is > > available. What is the best solution here? > > There's definitely no perfect solution. > > But, in general, I think we should cater to the dumbest users. Folks > doing higher-order allocations are not that. I say we make the picture > the most clear for the traditional 4k users. Your way might be confusing -- if there's a system which is under varying amounts of jumboframe load and all the 16k pages get gobbled up by the ethernet driver, MemFree won't change at all, for example. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
