ANDROID: add extra free kbytes tunable
Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount
of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and
low watermarks.
This is useful for realtime applications that call system
calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen
in any short time period. In this application, extra_free_kbytes
would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the
maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst.
It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual
machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory
fragmentation like ballooning does.
[ccross]
Revived for use on old kernels where no other solution exists.
The tunable will be removed on kernels that do better at avoiding
direct reclaim.
[surenb]
Will be reverted as soon as Android framework is reworked to
use upstream-supported watermark_scale_factor instead of
extra_free_kbytes.
Bug: 86445363
Change-Id: I765a42be8e964bfd3e2886d1ca85a29d60c3bb3e
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4449ca6..ccb3388 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -253,10 +253,22 @@
#endif
};
+/*
+ * Try to keep at least this much lowmem free. Do not allow normal
+ * allocations below this point, only high priority ones. Automatically
+ * tuned according to the amount of memory in the system.
+ */
int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
int user_min_free_kbytes = -1;
int watermark_scale_factor = 10;
+/*
+ * Extra memory for the system to try freeing. Used to temporarily
+ * free memory, to make space for new workloads. Anyone can allocate
+ * down to the min watermarks controlled by min_free_kbytes above.
+ */
+int extra_free_kbytes = 0;
+
static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
static unsigned long __meminitdata dma_reserve;
@@ -6664,6 +6676,7 @@
static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
{
unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+ unsigned long pages_low = extra_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
struct zone *zone;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -6675,11 +6688,14 @@
}
for_each_zone(zone) {
- u64 tmp;
+ u64 min, low;
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
- tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone->managed_pages;
- do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages);
+ min = (u64)pages_min * zone->managed_pages;
+ do_div(min, lowmem_pages);
+ low = (u64)pages_low * zone->managed_pages;
+ do_div(low, vm_total_pages);
+
if (is_highmem(zone)) {
/*
* __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't
@@ -6700,7 +6716,7 @@
* If it's a lowmem zone, reserve a number of pages
* proportionate to the zone's size.
*/
- zone->watermark[WMARK_MIN] = tmp;
+ zone->watermark[WMARK_MIN] = min;
}
/*
@@ -6708,12 +6724,14 @@
* scale factor in proportion to available memory, but
* ensure a minimum size on small systems.
*/
- tmp = max_t(u64, tmp >> 2,
+ min = max_t(u64, min >> 2,
mult_frac(zone->managed_pages,
watermark_scale_factor, 10000));
- zone->watermark[WMARK_LOW] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp;
- zone->watermark[WMARK_HIGH] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp * 2;
+ zone->watermark[WMARK_LOW] = min_wmark_pages(zone) +
+ low + min;
+ zone->watermark[WMARK_HIGH] = min_wmark_pages(zone) +
+ low + min * 2;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
}
@@ -6794,7 +6812,7 @@
/*
* min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler - just a wrapper around proc_dointvec() so
* that we can call two helper functions whenever min_free_kbytes
- * changes.
+ * or extra_free_kbytes changes.
*/
int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)