mm/page_alloc: make the annotations of available memory more accurate
authorYang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:08:34 +0000 (02:08 +0000)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 4 Jul 2022 01:08:50 +0000 (18:08 -0700)
commitade63b419c4e8d27f0642804b6c8c7a76ffc18ac
treeeb6d24fdc04c955c626a1b4f6cc0c8cc33390eb7
parentdc89997264de565999a1cb55db3f295d3a8e457b
mm/page_alloc: make the annotations of available memory more accurate

Not all systems use swap, so estimating available memory would help to
prevent swapping or OOM of system that not use swap.

And we need to reserve some page cache to prevent swapping or thrashing.
If somebody is accessing the pages in pagecache, and if too much would be
freed, most accesses might mean reading data from disk, i.e.  thrashing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220623020833.972979-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c