| Message ID | 20200402140113.3696-3-bhe@redhat.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | improvements about lowmem_reserve and /proc/zoneinfo | expand |
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c0c788798d8b..138a56c0f48f 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7840,8 +7840,10 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void) idx--; lower_zone = pgdat->node_zones + idx; - if (!sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx]) { + if (!sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx] || + !zone_managed_pages(lower_zone)) { lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = 0; + continue; } else { lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = managed_pages / sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx];
When requesting memory allocation from a specific zone is not satisfied, it will fall to lower zone to try allocating memory. In this case, lower zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] will help protect its own memory resource. The higher the relevant ->lowmem_reserve[] is, the harder the upper zone can get memory from this lower zone. However, this protection mechanism should be applied to populated zone, but not an empty zone. So filling ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone is not necessary, and may mislead people that it's valid data in that zone. Node 2, zone DMA pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 0, 1024, 1024) Node 2, zone DMA32 pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 0, 1024, 1024) Node 2, zone Normal per-node stats nr_inactive_anon 0 nr_active_anon 143 nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_unevictable 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 45 nr_slab_unreclaimable 254 Here clear out zone->lowmem_reserve[] if zone is empty. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)