Adam Litke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:52 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> Adam Litke wrote:
>>> How it works
>>> ============
>>>
>>> Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error
>>> immediately,
>>> first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy
>>> allocator.
>>> Care must be taken to avoid unbounded growth of the hugetlb pool, so the
>>> hugetlb filesystem quota is used to limit overall pool size.
>>>
>> If I understand hugetlb correctly, there is no accounting of hugepages
>> to the RSS of any process. Since the pool will no longer be static,
>> should we also consider changes to the accounting of hugepages?
>
> You're right: there is no accounting of huge pages against a process.
> This is also the case for the statically allocated pool so this
> particular issue exists unconditionally. There are several things
> missing: RSS accounting, counting huge pages towards locked_vm limits,
> etc... The plan is to address these separately and to fix them all at
> once.
>
I am interested in the accounting and control of hugepages as an
extension to the current memory controller, we can of-course do this
incrementally.
> In the absence of traditional per-process huge page accounting, the
> kernel has provided an alternate means for restricting a process' access
> to the global hugetlb pool: filesystem permissions and quotas. It's not
> ideal, but with this patch series, the filesystem permissions and quotas
> remain the effective mechanism for restricting pool growth and
> consumption by processes.
>
OK, thats what I thought.
Thanks for sharing your plans
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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