From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:03:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve3w9ka6.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080309111456.GA21690@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:14:56 +0100")
Hi,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> hm. I think we should not let this much RAM hang around in a
> special-purpose allocator like quicklists. Shouldnt the quicklists be
> temporary in nature, and be trimmed much more agressively?
>
> in fact, we have a check_pgt_cache() call in cpu_idle(), which does:
>
> quicklist_trim(0, pgd_dtor, 25, 16);
>
> but it appears we dont do quicklist trimming anywhere else! So if a
> system has no idle time, the quicklist can grow unbounded, and that's a
> real memory leak IMO.
It is also called from tlbu_finish_mmu().
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-09 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-09 10:19 quicklists confuse meminfo Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 10:26 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-09 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-09 10:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 12:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 11:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 12:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 15:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-09 12:03 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-03-09 12:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 12:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 13:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-09 20:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 15:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-10 16:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-10 17:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-10 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 18:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-10 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 20:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 21:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-11 4:07 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-21 12:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-21 14:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-26 7:45 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-26 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-26 8:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-26 10:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-26 16:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-27 9:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-09 19:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-09 19:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 19:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-10 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-10 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-09 12:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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