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>
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Mel Gorman 2007-10-16 01:25:52 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c361be55b3
commit e12ba74d8f
16 changed files with 56 additions and 28 deletions

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#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY
#define MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 1
#define MIGRATE_TYPES 2
#define MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE 1
#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 2
#define MIGRATE_TYPES 3
#else
#define MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_UNRECLAIMABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_TYPES 1
#endif