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| author | Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> | 2014-01-21 15:49:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -0800 |
| commit | 49f0ce5f92321cdcf741e35f385669a421013cb7 (patch) | |
| tree | d41c5a2283b32be69840cb8722ffd8cd8c38a1b0 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | aec6a8889a98a0cd58357cd0937a25189908f191 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-49f0ce5f92321cdcf741e35f385669a421013cb7.tar.gz lwn-49f0ce5f92321cdcf741e35f385669a421013cb7.zip | |
mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable
Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping. With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).
This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c8da99f905cf..332cefcdb04b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ #if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) /* External variables not in a header file. */ -extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; -extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; extern int max_threads; extern int suid_dumpable; #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP @@ -1121,7 +1119,14 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_overcommit_ratio, .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_ratio), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = overcommit_ratio_handler, + }, + { + .procname = "overcommit_kbytes", + .data = &sysctl_overcommit_kbytes, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_kbytes), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = overcommit_kbytes_handler, }, { .procname = "page-cluster", |