CMA related memory questions

[Joonsoo Kim]

2015-01-30 12:25 GMT+09:00 Heesub Shin <heesub.shin at samsung.com>:
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> On 01/30/2015 11:57 AM, Jun Nie wrote:
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>> On 2015年01月30日 10:36, Jun Nie wrote:
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>>> Hi Marek & Arnd,
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>>> Did you ever know issue that free CMA memory is high, but system is
>>> hungry for memory and page cache is very low? I am enabling CMA in
>>> Android on my board with 512MB memory and see FreeMem in /proc/meminfo
>>> increase a lot with CMA comparing the reservation solution on boot. But
>>> I find system is not borrowing memory from CMA pool when running 3dmark
>>> (high webkit workload at start). Because the FreeMem size is high, but
>>> cache size decreasing significantly to several MB during benchmark run,
>>> I suppose system is trying to reclaim memory from pagecache for new
>>> allocation. My question is that what API that page cache and webkit
>>> related functionality are using to allocate memory. Maybe page cache
>>> require memory that is not movable/reclaimable memory, where we may have
>>> optimization to go thru dma_alloc_xxx to borrow CMA memory? I suppose
>>> app level memory allocation shall be movable/reclaimable memory and can
>>> borrow from CMA pool, but not sure whether the flag match the
>>> movable/reclaimable memory and go thru the right path.

Hello,

Maybe, you experienced the problem what I tried to solve.
CMA freepage allocation logic in mainline doesn't work well now since
they are only allocated in fallback case. See below link for detailed
explanation.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/64

This problem can be solved by aggressive allocation approach in that link, but,
there are too many issues left in CMA. So, I'm trying to implement ZONE_CMA
now. Prototyping is nearly finished so I will send it soon.

Thanks.