Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:42:57 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches |
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:36:17PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We can use the newly introduced kmalloc-reclaimable-X caches, to allocate > external names in dcache, which will take care of the proper accounting > automatically, and also improve anti-fragmentation page grouping. > > This effectively reverts commit f1782c9bc547 ("dcache: account external names > as indirectly reclaimable memory") and instead passes __GFP_RECLAIMABLE to > kmalloc(). The accounting thus moves from NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES to > NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE, which is also considered in MemAvailable calculation and > overcommit decisions. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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