From ade63b419c4e8d27f0642804b6c8c7a76ffc18ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Yang Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:08:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE Cc: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 52fd92b..c9c02b2 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5800,14 +5800,14 @@ long si_mem_available(void) /* * Estimate the amount of memory available for userspace allocations, - * without causing swapping. + * without causing swapping or OOM. */ available = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) - totalreserve_pages; /* * Not all the page cache can be freed, otherwise the system will - * start swapping. Assume at least half of the page cache, or the - * low watermark worth of cache, needs to stay. + * start swapping or thrashing. Assume at least half of the page + * cache, or the low watermark worth of cache, needs to stay. */ pagecache = pages[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + pages[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]; pagecache -= min(pagecache / 2, wmark_low); -- 2.7.4