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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Mel Gorman 2007-10-16 01:25:52 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit e12ba74d8f
16 changed files with 56 additions and 28 deletions

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@ -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)