On Sunday 17 May 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
Hi,
> Sorry for being late.
No big deal.
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:42:17PM +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > We want to avoid attempting to free too much memory too hard during
> > hibernation, so estimate the minimum size of the image to use as the
> > lower limit for preallocating memory.
> >
> > The approach here is based on the (experimental) observation that we
> > can't free more page frames than the sum of:
> >
> > * global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)
> > * global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON)
> > * global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON)
> > * global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE)
> > * global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE)
>
> It's a very good idea to count the numbers in a reverse way.
>
> > and even that is usually impossible to free in practice, because some
> > of the pages reported as global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) can't
> > in fact be freed. It turns out, however, that if the sum of the
> > above numbers is subtracted from the number of saveable pages in the
> > system and the result is multiplied by 1.25, we get a suitable
> > estimate of the minimum size of the image.
>
> However, the "*1.25" looks like a hack.
It's just an experimental value.
> We should really apply more constraints to the individual components.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/power/snapshot.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/power/snapshot.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
> > @@ -1213,6 +1213,49 @@ static void free_unnecessary_pages(void)
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > + * minimum_image_size - Estimate the minimum acceptable size of an image
> > + * @saveable: The total number of saveable pages in the system.
> > + *
> > + * We want to avoid attempting to free too much memory too hard, so estimate the
> > + * minimum acceptable size of a hibernation image to use as the lower limit for
> > + * preallocating memory.
> > + *
> > + * The minimum size of the image is computed as
> > + *
> > + * ([number of saveable pages] - [number of pages we can free]) * 1.25
> > + *
> > + * where the second term is the sum of reclaimable slab, anonymouns pages and
> > + * active/inactive file pages.
> > + *
> > + * NOTE: It usually turns out that we can't really free all pages reported as
> > + * reclaimable slab, so the number resulting from the subtraction alone is too
> > + * low. Still, it seems reasonable to assume that this number is proportional
> > + * to the total number of pages that cannot be freed, which leads to the
> > + * formula above. The coefficient of proportinality in this formula, 1.25, has
> > + * been determined experimentally.
> > + */
> > +static unsigned long minimum_image_size(unsigned long saveable)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long size;
> > +
> > + /* Compute the number of saveable pages we can free. */
> > + size = global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)
> > + + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON)
> > + + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON)
> > + + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE)
> > + + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
>
> For example, we could drop the 1.25 ratio and calculate the above
> reclaimable size with more meaningful constraints:
>
> /* slabs are not easy to reclaim */
> size = global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) / 2;
Why 1/2?
> /* keep NR_ACTIVE_ANON */
> size += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
Why exactly did you omit ACTIVE_ANON?
> /* keep mapped files */
> size += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
> size += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> size -= global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED);
>
> That restores the hard core working set logic in the reverse way ;)
I think the 1/2 factor for NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE may be too high in some cases,
but I'm going to check that.
Thanks,
Rafael
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