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 --- include/linux/slab.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index d859354b9e51..3a5bad3ad126 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -24,12 +24,14 @@ #define SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00002000UL /* Align objs on cache lines */ #define SLAB_CACHE_DMA 0x00004000UL /* Use GFP_DMA memory */ #define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */ -#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */ #define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */ #define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */ #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */ #define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */ +/* The following flags affect the page allocator grouping pages by mobility */ +#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */ +#define SLAB_TEMPORARY SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT /* Objects are short-lived */ /* * ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests. * -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b