Why is there less MemFree than there used to be? It perturbed a test,
so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went
upstream yesterday.
Commit 93278814d3 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()"
mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8,
which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of
us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor).
MemTotal: 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB
Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8:
MemFree: 6948420kB 6237172kB 6949696kB 6840692kB 6949048kB 6862984kB
Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0:
MemFree: 7945000kB 7944908kB 7948568kB 7949060kB 7948796kB 7948812kB
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
[ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a
separate thing - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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