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authorJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>2014-01-21 15:49:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 16:19:44 -0800
commit49f0ce5f92321cdcf741e35f385669a421013cb7 (patch)
treed41c5a2283b32be69840cb8722ffd8cd8c38a1b0 /mm/util.c
parentaec6a8889a98a0cd58357cd0937a25189908f191 (diff)
mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable
Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the maximum usage of memory without swapping. With growing memory, the 1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB). This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a much finer grain. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build] Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c36
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 808f375648e7..a24aa22f2473 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -404,13 +404,45 @@ struct address_space *page_mapping(struct page *page)
return mapping;
}
+int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ if (ret == 0 && write)
+ sysctl_overcommit_kbytes = 0;
+ return ret;
+}
+
+int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ if (ret == 0 && write)
+ sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 0;
+ return ret;
+}
+
/*
* Committed memory limit enforced when OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is used
*/
unsigned long vm_commit_limit(void)
{
- return ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
- * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages;
+ unsigned long allowed;
+
+ if (sysctl_overcommit_kbytes)
+ allowed = sysctl_overcommit_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+ else
+ allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
+ * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100);
+ allowed += total_swap_pages;
+
+ return allowed;
}