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 --- fs/buffer.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index a406cfd..faceb5e 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++; -- cgit v1.1