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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-10-16 01:25:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:00 -0700
commite12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch)
treea0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
parentMove free pages between lists on steal (diff)
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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 'include/linux/pageblock-flags.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pageblock-flags.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
index 3619d52a425c..5456da6b4ade 100644
--- a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
/* Bit indices that affect a whole block of pages */
enum pageblock_bits {
- PB_range(PB_migrate, 1), /* 1 bit required for migrate types */
+ PB_range(PB_migrate, 2), /* 2 bits required for migrate types */
NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS
};