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mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable
authorJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:49:14 +0000 (15:49 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:19:44 +0000 (16:19 -0800)
commitfc6af2c778ec4e9c81f33da3798ce56e99bf103f
treed41c5a2283b32be69840cb8722ffd8cd8c38a1b0
parent3ae487e3aa5cdad4600a1475c555688cab12fe6d
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>
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/mman.h
kernel/sysctl.c
mm/mmap.c
mm/nommu.c
mm/util.c