[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] lib: Report file cache as available system memory

[Chris Wilson]

sysinfo() doesn't include all reclaimable memory. In particular it
excludes the majority of global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES),
reclaimable pages that are a copy of on-disk files It seems the only way
to obtain this counter is by parsing /proc/meminfo. For comparison,
check vm_enough_memory() which includes NR_FILE_PAGES as available
(sadly there's no way to call vm_enough_memory() directly either!)

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 lib/intel_os.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/intel_os.c b/lib/intel_os.c
index 885ffdcec..a44f153d3 100644
--- a/lib/intel_os.c
+++ b/lib/intel_os.c
@@ -96,17 +96,41 @@ intel_get_avail_ram_mb(void)
 	uint64_t retval;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_STRUCT_SYSINFO_TOTALRAM /* Linux */
-	struct sysinfo sysinf;
+	char *info;
 	int fd;
 
 	fd = drm_open_driver(DRIVER_INTEL);
 	intel_purge_vm_caches(fd);
 	close(fd);
 
-	igt_assert(sysinfo(&sysinf) == 0);
-	retval = sysinf.freeram;
-	retval += min(sysinf.freeswap, sysinf.bufferram);
-	retval *= sysinf.mem_unit;
+	fd = open("/proc", O_RDONLY);
+	info = igt_sysfs_get(fd, "meminfo");
+	close(fd);
+
+	if (info) {
+		long val;
+
+		sscanf("MemAvailable: %lu", &val);
+		retval = val << 10;
+
+		sscanf("Buffers: %lu", &val);
+		retval += val << 10;
+
+		sscanf("Cached: %lu", &val);
+		retval += val << 10;
+
+		sscanf("SwapCached: %lu", &val);
+		retval += val << 10;
+
+		free(info);
+	} else {
+		struct sysinfo sysinf;
+
+		igt_assert(sysinfo(&sysinf) == 0);
+		retval = sysinf.freeram;
+		retval += min(sysinf.freeswap, sysinf.bufferram);
+		retval *= sysinf.mem_unit;
+	}
 #elif defined(_SC_PAGESIZE) && defined(_SC_AVPHYS_PAGES) /* Solaris */
 	long pagesize, npages;
 
-- 
2.18.0.rc2