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| author | Mel Gorman <[email protected]> | 2007-10-16 08:25:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2007-10-16 16:43:00 +0000 |
| commit | e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch) | |
| tree | a0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /fs/proc/generic.c | |
| parent | Move free pages between lists on steal (diff) | |
| download | kernel-e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093.tar.gz kernel-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 <[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]>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/generic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/generic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index b5e7155d30d8..1bdb62435758 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ proc_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, nbytes = MAX_NON_LFS - pos; dp = PDE(inode); - if (!(page = (char*) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL))) + if (!(page = (char*) __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY))) return -ENOMEM; while ((nbytes > 0) && !eof) { |