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mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:57:12 +0000 (10:57 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:58:36 +0000 (15:58 +1000)
commit2cb33b24b97d545d499d2713e2791fbe07c78b4a
tree59c098a58495b875bbc5062876cfc70436b9a077
parentb26018e0ae9c141e61680f57078ea2f9245bb4a1
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