Re: [PATCH] meminfo: provide estimated per-node's available memory

[Andi Kleen]

Chunsheng Luo <luochunsheng@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> +	available = sum_zone_node_page_state(nid, NR_FREE_PAGES) - pgdat->totalreserve_pages;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Not all the page cache can be freed, otherwise the system will
> +	 * start swapping or thrashing. Assume at least half of the page
> +	 * cache, or the low watermark worth of cache, needs to stay.
> +	 */
> +	pagecache = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> +		node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +	pagecache -= min(pagecache / 2, wmark_low);


The magic number 2 should be a define (or maybe even a tunable). Similar
below. It seems quite arbitrary, but I don't have a better solution
either. Maybe could handle dirty differently, but nothing stands out here


> +		node_page_state(pgdat, NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE);
> +	reclaimable -= min(reclaimable / 2, wmark_low);
> +	available += reclaimable;
> +
> +	if (available < 0)
> +		available = 0;

That would be a bug? Perhaps add a WARN_ON


With those changes:

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



-Andi