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mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:58:26 +0000 (10:58 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:29:56 +0000 (15:29 +1000)
commitd11e0af5624fe07b8b0b35729aea4df2e23b00b1
tree33dcd9bb55b64bfc2ebc230b5c8235793f05b536
parent3b1be0f2d978ebab0dd3a3d02afe708c882b2bea
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