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mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:22:33 +0000 (13:22 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:01:30 +0000 (16:01 +1000)
commit8c4b5253f9b2c43a3f3ef05f09c28c60141afc35
tree5457a1c5942e29932a75dc30a1e44de0fd803c8a
parent48ae70a87304d44c04c7817fb11e3e25f4c1c43a
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.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/gfp.h
mm/page_alloc.c