Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 7 authors, 2018-05-29

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] kmalloc-reclaimable caches

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2018-05-24 15:52:35
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On 05/24/2018 02:13 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:00:06PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
quoted
Hi,

- I haven't find any other obvious users for reclaimable kmalloc (yet)
As I remember, ION memory allocator was discussed related to this theme:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/24/1288
+CC Laura

Yeah ION added the NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES handling, which is
adjusted to page granularity in patch 4. I'm not sure if it should use
kmalloc as it seems to be allocating order-X pages, where kmalloc/slab
just means extra overhead. But maybe if it doesn't allocate/free too
frequently, it could work?
quoted
I did a superset as IIRC somebody suggested that in the older threads or at LSF.
This looks nice to me!

Thanks!
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