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>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 19d3202..a90c4ff 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,9 @@
if (s->flags & SLAB_CACHE_DMA)
flags |= SLUB_DMA;
+ if (s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
+ flags |= __GFP_RECLAIMABLE;
+
if (node == -1)
page = alloc_pages(flags, s->order);
else