This patch set introduces the concept of indirectly reclaimable memory and applies it to fix the issue, when a big number of dentries with external names can significantly affect the MemAvailable value. v2: 1) removed comments specific to unreclaimable slabs 2) splitted into 3 patches v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/1/961 Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx Roman Gushchin (3): mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as available in MemAvailable dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory fs/dcache.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++ mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.14.3 -- 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>
