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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v2 -mm] add extra free kbytes tunable
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:11 -0400
Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com> wrote:

> On 10/10/2011 06:37 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:08:19 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes
> > <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > The page allocator already tries harder if the caller has
> > rt_task(current). Why is this inadequate? Can we extend this idea
> > further to fix whatever-the-problem-is?
>
> Actually page allocator decreases min watermark to 3/4 * min watermark
> for rt-task. But in our case some applications create a lot of
> processes and if all of them are rt-task, the amount of watermark
> bonus(1/4 * min watermark) is not enough.
>
> If we can tune the amount of bonus, it may be fine. But that is
> almost all same as extra free kbytes.

This situation is detectable at runtime. If realtime tasks are being
stalled in the page allocator then start to increase the free-page
reserves. A little control system.



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