add extra free kbytes tunable
Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and low watermarks. This is useful for realtime applications that call system calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen in any short time period. In this application, extra_free_kbytes would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst. It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory fragmentation like ballooning does. [ccross] Revived for use on old kernels where no other solution exists. The tunable will be removed on kernels that do better at avoiding direct reclaim. Change-Id: I765a42be8e964bfd3e2886d1ca85a29d60c3bb3e Signed-off-by:Rik van <Riel<riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Git-commit: 2f42fa9141974d917c5a85fc484e48f53cf7ec71 Git-Repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git [imaund@codeaurora.org: Resolve merge conflicts] Signed-off-by:
Ian Maund <imaund@codeaurora.org>
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