On 05/24/2018 02:13 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:00:06PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> - I haven't find any other obvious users for reclaimable kmalloc (yet) > > As I remember, ION memory allocator was discussed related to this theme: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/24/1288 +CC Laura Yeah ION added the NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES handling, which is adjusted to page granularity in patch 4. I'm not sure if it should use kmalloc as it seems to be allocating order-X pages, where kmalloc/slab just means extra overhead. But maybe if it doesn't allocate/free too frequently, it could work? >> I did a superset as IIRC somebody suggested that in the older threads or at LSF. > > This looks nice to me! > > Thanks! >
