From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make vm_enough_memory more efficient
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:14:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030116001447.07337e9e.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66360000.1042703224@titus>
"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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2003-01-16 7:47 Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-16 8:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-01-16 15:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
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