From e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:25:52 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/slab.c') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 8fb56ae685de..e34bcb87a6ee 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -1643,6 +1643,8 @@ static void *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid) #endif flags |= cachep->gfpflags; + if (cachep->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) + flags |= __GFP_RECLAIMABLE; page = alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder); if (!page) -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522