On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 15:43 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 09.09.20 15:19, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 09:04 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > That CMA has to be pre-reserved, right? That requires a > > > configuration. > > > > To some extent, yes. > > > > However, because that pool can be used for movable > > 4kB and 2MB > > pages as well as for 1GB pages, it would be easy to just set > > the size of that pool to eg. 1/3 or even 1/2 of memory for every > > system. > > > > It isn't like the pool needs to be the exact right size. We > > just need to avoid the "highmem problem" of having too little > > memory for kernel allocations. > > > > I am not sure I like the trend towards CMA that we are seeing, > reserving > huge buffers for specific users (and eventually even doing it > automatically). > > What we actually want is ZONE_MOVABLE with relaxed guarantees, such > that > anybody who requires large, unmovable allocations can use it. > > I once played with the idea of having ZONE_PREFER_MOVABLE, which > a) Is the primary choice for movable allocations > b) Is allowed to contain unmovable allocations (esp., gigantic pages) > c) Is the fallback for ZONE_NORMAL for unmovable allocations, instead > of > running out of memory > > If someone messes up the zone ratio, issues known from zone > imbalances > are avoided - large allocations simply become less likely to succeed. > In > contrast to ZONE_MOVABLE, memory offlining is not guaranteed to work. I really like that idea. This will be easier to deal with than a "just the right size" CMA area, and seems like it would be pretty forgiving in both directions. Keeping unmovable allocations contained to one part of memory should also make compaction within the ZONE_PREFER_MOVABLE area a lot easier than compaction for higher order allocations is today. I suspect your proposal solves a lot of issues at once. For (c) from your proposal, we could even claim a whole 2MB or even 1GB area at once for unmovable allocations, keeping those contained in a limited amount of physical memory again, to make life easier on compaction. -- All Rights Reversed.
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