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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2007-10-16 10:25:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 18:43:00 +0200 |
| commit | e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch) | |
| tree | a0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /lib | |
| parent | Move free pages between lists on steal (diff) | |
| download | linux-e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093.tar.xz linux-e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093.zip | |
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 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/radix-tree.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c index 519d3f00ef9e..6b26f9d39800 100644 --- a/lib/radix-tree.c +++ b/lib/radix-tree.c @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ radix_tree_node_alloc(struct radix_tree_root *root) struct radix_tree_node *ret; gfp_t gfp_mask = root_gfp_mask(root); - ret = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, gfp_mask); + ret = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, + set_migrateflags(gfp_mask, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE)); if (ret == NULL && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) { struct radix_tree_preload *rtp; @@ -142,7 +143,8 @@ int radix_tree_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask) rtp = &__get_cpu_var(radix_tree_preloads); while (rtp->nr < ARRAY_SIZE(rtp->nodes)) { preempt_enable(); - node = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, gfp_mask); + node = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, + set_migrateflags(gfp_mask, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE)); if (node == NULL) goto out; preempt_disable(); |