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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2015-11-06 16:28:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800 |
| commit | 974a786e63c96a2401a78ddba926f34c128474f1 (patch) | |
| tree | c3551fdc6208bc2f764455cb73ad676a965a17e0 /mm/huge_memory.c | |
| parent | f77cf4e4cc9d40310a7224a1a67c733aeec78836 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-974a786e63c96a2401a78ddba926f34c128474f1.tar.gz lwn-974a786e63c96a2401a78ddba926f34c128474f1.zip | |
mm, page_alloc: remove MIGRATE_RESERVE
MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that
existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages
tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the
allocation. At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic
allocations relied on this property so MIGRATE_RESERVE was introduced. A
later patch will introduce an alternative MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC so this patch
deletes MIGRATE_RESERVE and supporting code so it'll be easier to review.
Note that this patch in isolation may look like a false regression if
someone was bisecting high-order atomic allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/huge_memory.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 9812d4618651..dabd247df535 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void) for_each_populated_zone(zone) nr_zones++; - /* Make sure at least 2 hugepages are free for MIGRATE_RESERVE */ + /* Ensure 2 pageblocks are free to assist fragmentation avoidance */ recommended_min = pageblock_nr_pages * nr_zones * 2; /* |