[PATCH 0/3] indirectly reclaimable memory
From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Mon Mar 05 2018 - 08:38:29 EST
This patch set introduces the concept of indirectly reclaimable
memory and applies it to fix the issue, when a big number
of dentries with external names can significantly affect
the MemAvailable value.
v2:
1) removed comments specific to unreclaimable slabs
2) splitted into 3 patches
v1:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/1/961
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
Roman Gushchin (3):
mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES
mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as available in MemAvailable
dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory
fs/dcache.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++
mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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