Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:50:19 -0700


>> Some workloads like to eat up a lot of vmalloc space.
>
> Which workloads are those?
>
>> It is often hard to tell
>> whether this is because the area is too small, or just too fragmented. This
>> makes it easy to determine.
>
> I do not recall ever having seen any bug/problem reports which this patch
> would have helped to solve. Could you explain in more detai why is it useful?

Seen on specweb - doubling the size of the vmalloc space made it go
away, but without any counters, it was all really just guesswork.

I am also going to implement per-node slabcache on top of vmalloc,
as slabs have to be in permanently mapped KVA, but all ZONE_NORMAL
is on node 0. That's going to put a lot of pressure on the vmalloc
area.

M.

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