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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-10-16 10:25:52 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 18:43:00 +0200
commite12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch)
treea0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /fs/buffer.c
parentMove free pages between lists on steal (diff)
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Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index a406cfd89e3b..faceb5eecca9 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3169,7 +3169,8 @@ static void recalc_bh_state(void)
struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
- struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_zalloc(bh_cachep, gfp_flags);
+ struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_zalloc(bh_cachep,
+ set_migrateflags(gfp_flags, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE));
if (ret) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ret->b_assoc_buffers);
get_cpu_var(bh_accounting).nr++;