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* [PATCH] mm/vmpressure: scale window size based on machine memory
@ 2026-02-26 22:22 Benjamin Lee McQueen
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From: Benjamin Lee McQueen @ 2026-02-26 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb,
	mhocko, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Benjamin Lee McQueen

vmpressure's window size was fixed at 512 pages regardless of machine size.

This fix, from a TODO scales the window size based on RAM size of the machine.
The method of scaling is similar to vmstat's scaling but based on RAM alone.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Lee McQueen <mcq@disroot.org>
---
 mm/vmpressure.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index 3fbb86996c4d..1d7b5d9e4351 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -32,11 +32,20 @@
  * As the vmscan reclaimer logic works with chunks which are multiple of
  * SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, it makes sense to use it for the window size as well.
  *
- * TODO: Make the window size depend on machine size, as we do for vmstat
- * thresholds. Currently we set it to 512 pages (2MB for 4KB pages).
+ * The window size scales with machine memory using logarithmic scaling
+ * Smaller machines get smaller window size, while larger ones, for
+ * example, get proportionally larger window size.
  */
-static const unsigned long vmpressure_win = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 16;
+static unsigned long vmpressure_win;
 
+static int __init vmpressure_win_init(void)
+{
+	unsigned long mem = totalram_pages() >> (27 - PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	vmpressure_win = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * max(16UL, (unsigned long)fls(mem) * 8);
+	return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(vmpressure_win_init);
 /*
  * These thresholds are used when we account memory pressure through
  * scanned/reclaimed ratio. The current values were chosen empirically. In
-- 
2.53.0



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