On 05/24/2018 08:52 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
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?
The page pool allocation is supposed to be a slow path but it's
one I'd rather not have too much overhead. It also just looks really odd
to be allocating higher order pages via kmalloc imho.
I did a superset as IIRC somebody suggested that in the older threads or at LSF.
This looks nice to me!
Thanks!
