From ba099ef165f876ab00349277a04467e8c8563316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:22:33 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/gfp.h | 5 +---- mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +++----- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 4883f393f50a..f9bc873ce7d6 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #else #define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0 #endif -#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u #define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u #define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u @@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */ #define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */ -#define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD) #define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */ #define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */ @@ -120,8 +118,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; __GFP_MOVABLE) #define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS) #define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \ - __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \ - __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) + __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA #define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 5b3cc334b3bb..8f6eea34e721 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2361,9 +2361,8 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, goto nopage; restart: - if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) - wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, - zone_idx(preferred_zone)); + wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, + zone_idx(preferred_zone)); /* * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background @@ -2439,8 +2438,7 @@ rebalance: * requested a movable allocation that does not heavily disrupt the * system then fail the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim. */ - if ((deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) && - (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) + if (deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) goto nopage; /* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */ -- 2.39.5