"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> vm_enough_memory seems to call si_meminfo just to get the total
> RAM, which seems far too expensive. This replaces the comment
> saying "this is crap" with some code that's less crap.
>
> Not heavily tested (compiles and boots), but seems pretty obvious.
Yup, obviously correct.
The really hurtful part of vm_enough_memory() is the call to
get_page_cache_size(), which has to go over every CPU's local VM statistics
in get_page_state().
But I guess you're running with sysctl_overcommit_memory != 0.
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