]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
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>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:06:42 +0000 (16:06 +1000)
commit16d4f09ce97d50856ff1a1ab17ce26716efb4ad7
tree7cc638d65a54b95e5fb7a2655c27169c9bbbd318
parent0b59c33a407137ca2298556fa873be1128884957
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