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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:12:58 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345491 - in head/sys: conf fs/tmpfs  modules/tmpfs
Message-ID:  <3398a21318a4a6715609004d569d20de86f1dc7a.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201903251242.x2PCgre6051543@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <201903251242.x2PCgre6051543@slippy.cwsent.com>

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On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 05:42 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <201903250746.x2P7kKUu019786@repo.freebsd.org>, Allan
> Jude 
> writes:
> > Author: allanjude
> > Date: Mon Mar 25 07:46:20 2019
> > New Revision: 345491
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345491
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Make TMPFS_PAGES_MINRESERVED a kernel option
> >   
> >   TMPFS_PAGES_MINRESERVED controls how much memory is reserved for
> > the system
> >   and not used by tmpfs.
> >   
> >   On very small memory systems, the default value may be too high
> > and this
> >   prevents these small memory systems from using reroot, which is
> > required
> >   for them to install firmware updates.
> >   
> >   Submitted by:	Hiroki Mori <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp>
> >   Reviewed by:	mizhka
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13583
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/sys/conf/options
> >   head/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs.h
> >   head/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c
> >   head/sys/modules/tmpfs/Makefile
> > 
> 
> Would this be a good candidate for a sysctl or tuneable?
> 

The small-memory embedded systems most affected by this often don't use
loader(8) at all, so tunables aren't an option, and sysctl may be too
late.  No reason it can't be a tunable as well, but it'll probably need
to remain as a compile-time option too.

-- Ian




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