min_free_kbytes是内存最安全值的阈值,然后这个值是怎么影响到系统内存回收的呢?

min_free_kbytes

内存域水印值:min_free_kbytes

当不设置的时候:sqrt(16M)=4k 4k*4 = 16k

设置内存水印值的函数是:

6792 /*
6793  * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
6794  *
6795  * For small machines we want it small (128k min).  For large machinemis
6796  * we want it large (64MB max).  But it is not linear, because network
6797  * bandwidth does not increase linearly with machine size.  We use
6798  *
6799  *  min_free_kbytes = 4 * sqrt(lowmem_kbytes), for better accuracy:
6800  *  min_free_kbytes = sqrt(lowmem_kbytes * 16)
6801  *
6802  * which yields
6803  *
6804  * 16MB:    512k
6805  * 32MB:    724k
6806  * 64MB:    1024k
6807  * 128MB:   1448k
6808  * 256MB:   2048k
6809  * 512MB:   2896k
6810  * 1024MB:  4096k
6811  * 2048MB:  5792k
6812  * 4096MB:  8192k
6813  * 8192MB:  11584k
6814  * 16384MB: 16384k
6815  */
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 __setup_per_zone_wmarks 中会设置每个内存zone中的min/low/high水印

内存域的这些值都是怎么玩的?

突然间发现了一个函数,可以看到每个内存域的各种内存的信息:show_free_areas竟然是printk,只有在内存很低的时候才打印!

min: 在vmscan时会用到:pfmemalloc_watermark_ok , __zone_watermark_ok这里会判断是不是超过了内存的水位。

./include/linux/mmzone.h:258:#define min_wmark_pages(z) (z->watermark[WMARK_MIN])

low:

high

原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/honpey/p/7892707.html