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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>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:46:00 +0000 (18:46 +1000)
commit93f111b16401759aca323187f878d009e3a4e64c
tree22fbd958f2b600263bcee265c8f5d9311b6514cf
parent759a35d558286fc25be17ec1009ac78cb85adbf6
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