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mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:03 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:59:50 +0000 (13:59 +1100)
commit11dcb752fa68d087b83a9656eecbd8194d575c87
treec8a0ca9e3b4f155d0acf8942b154e53243b06ff3
parent7a0eab89d4d9689d436340403dbd53227fdc6d9a
mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD

When transparent huge pages were introduced, memory compaction and swap
storms were an issue, and the kernel had to be careful to not make THP
allocations cause pageout or compaction.

Now that we have working compaction deferral, kswapd is smart enough to
invoke compaction and the quadratic behaviour around isolate_free_pages
has been fixed, it should be safe to remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD.

[minchan@kernel.org: Comment fix]
[mgorman@suse.de: Avoid direct reclaim for deferred compaction]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
include/linux/gfp.h
include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
mm/page_alloc.c