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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:00:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Yanmin,
>
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:38 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > Can we add a checking about free memory page number/percentage in function
> > allocate_slab that we can bypass the first try of alloc_pages when memory
> > is hungry?
>
> If the check isn't too expensive, I don't any reason not to. How would
> you go about checking how much free pages there are, though? Is there
> something in the page allocator that we can use for this?
If the free memory is low then reclaim needs to be run to increase the
free memory. Falling back immediately incurs the overhead of going through
the order 0 queues.
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