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| author |   Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2007-10-16 01:25:52 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:43:00 -0700 |
| commit | e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch) | |
| tree | a0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /fs/proc | |
| parent | Move free pages between lists on steal (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093.tar.xz linux-dev-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 <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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/base.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/generic.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index e5d0953d4db1..78fdfea1a7f8 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_info_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf, count = PROC_BLOCK_SIZE; length = -ENOMEM; - if (!(page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL))) + if (!(page = __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY))) goto out; length = PROC_I(inode)->op.proc_read(task, (char*)page); @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf, goto out; ret = -ENOMEM; - page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER); + page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY); if (!page) goto out; @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf, goto out; copied = -ENOMEM; - page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER); + page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY); if (!page) goto out; @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_loginuid_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf, /* No partial writes. */ return -EINVAL; } - page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_USER); + page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY); if (!page) return -ENOMEM; length = -EFAULT; @@ -954,7 +954,8 @@ static int do_proc_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, char __user *buffer, int buflen) { struct inode * inode; - char *tmp = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL), *path; + char *tmp = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY); + char *path; int len; if (!tmp) @@ -1726,7 +1727,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf, goto out; length = -ENOMEM; - page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_USER); + page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY); if (!page) goto out; 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) { |