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author | Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> | 2011-09-27 08:47:58 -0600 |
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committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2011-10-14 12:36:08 -0400 |
commit | 38a1ed4f039db32b418007ac365076cf53647ebd (patch) | |
tree | 396d6b42817baa68d753f23a9784e81c5e23864d /include/xen | |
parent | 1f1503ba096d3a394d1454dac77467092ca996e6 (diff) |
xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
The balloon driver's "current_pages" is very different from
totalram_pages. Self-ballooning needs to be driven by
the latter. Also, Committed_AS doesn't account for pages
used by the kernel so:
1) Add totalreserve_pages to Committed_AS for the normal target.
2) Enforce a floor for when there are little or no user-space threads
using memory (e.g. single-user mode) to avoid OOMs. The floor
function includes a "min_usable_mb" tuneable in case we discover
later that the floor function is still too aggressive in some
workloads, though likely it will not be needed.
Changes since version 4:
- change floor calculation so that it is not as aggressive; this version
uses a piecewise linear function similar to minimum_target in the 2.6.18
balloon driver, but modified to add to totalreserve_pages instead of
subtract from max_pfn, the 2.6.18 version causes OOMs on recent kernels
because the kernel has expanded over time
- change safety_margin to min_usable_mb and comment on its use
- since committed_as does NOT include kernel space (and other reserved
pages), totalreserve_pages is now added to committed_as. The result is
less aggressive self-ballooning, but theoretically more appropriate.
Changes since version 3:
- missing include causes compile problem when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is disabled
- add comments after includes
Changes since version 2:
- missing include causes compile problem only on 32-bit
Changes since version 1:
- tuneable safety margin added
[v5: avi.miller@oracle.com: still too aggressive, seeing some OOMs]
[v4: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix compile when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is disabled]
[v3: guru.anbalagane@oracle.com: fix 32-bit compile]
[v2: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: make safety margin tuneable]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
[v1: Altered description and added an extra include]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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