Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 05:43:39PM +0530, vinayak menon wrote:
> One such case I have encountered is that of the ION page pool. The page pool
> registers a shrinker. When not in any memory pressure page pool can go high
> and thus cause an mmap to fail when OVERCOMMIT_GUESS is set. I can send
> a patch to account ION page pool pages in NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES.

Why not just account them as NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE?  I know it's not slab, but
other than that mis-naming, it seems like it'll do the right thing.