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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v2 -mm] add extra free kbytes tunable
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:26:50PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount
> of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and
> low watermarks.
>
> This is useful for realtime applications that call system
> calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen
> in any short time period. In this application, extra_free_kbytes
> would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the
> maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst.
>
> It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual
> machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory
> fragmentation like ballooning does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>

Btw, I wonder if there should be a waking of the kswapds in
setup_per_zone_wmarks() in general to make sure the new watermarks are
met. But that applies to min_free_kbytes as well, so not a
requirement for this patch.


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