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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-10-16 01:25:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:00 -0700
commite12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch)
treea0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /include
parentc361be55b3128474aa66d31092db330b07539103 (diff)
Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h15
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pageblock-flags.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h4
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index da8aa872eb6..f8ffcd401c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)0x20000u) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)0x40000u)/* No fallback, no policies */
-#define __GFP_MOVABLE ((__force gfp_t)0x80000u) /* Page is movable */
+#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)0x80000u) /* Page is reclaimable */
+#define __GFP_MOVABLE ((__force gfp_t)0x100000u) /* Page is movable */
-#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 20 /* Room for 20 __GFP_FOO bits */
+#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 21 /* Room for 21 __GFP_FOO bits */
#define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1))
/* This equals 0, but use constants in case they ever change */
@@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT)
#define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
+#define GFP_TEMPORARY (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | \
+ __GFP_RECLAIMABLE)
#define GFP_USER (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL)
#define GFP_HIGHUSER (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL | \
__GFP_HIGHMEM)
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#endif
/* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */
-#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_MOVABLE)
+#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
@@ -129,6 +132,12 @@ static inline enum zone_type gfp_zone(gfp_t flags)
return base + ZONE_NORMAL;
}
+static inline gfp_t set_migrateflags(gfp_t gfp, gfp_t migrate_flags)
+{
+ BUG_ON((gfp & GFP_MOVABLE_MASK) == GFP_MOVABLE_MASK);
+ return (gfp & ~(GFP_MOVABLE_MASK)) | migrate_flags;
+}
+
/*
* There is only one page-allocator function, and two main namespaces to
* it. The alloc_page*() variants return 'struct page *' and as such
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 7d7e4fe0fda..4721e9aa3ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY
#define MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE 0
-#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 1
-#define MIGRATE_TYPES 2
+#define MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE 1
+#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 2
+#define MIGRATE_TYPES 3
#else
#define MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE 0
+#define MIGRATE_UNRECLAIMABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_MOVABLE 0
#define MIGRATE_TYPES 1
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
index 3619d52a425..5456da6b4ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
/* Bit indices that affect a whole block of pages */
enum pageblock_bits {
- PB_range(PB_migrate, 1), /* 1 bit required for migrate types */
+ PB_range(PB_migrate, 2), /* 2 bits required for migrate types */
NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS
};
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index d859354b9e5..3a5bad3ad12 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -24,12 +24,14 @@
#define SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00002000UL /* Align objs on cache lines */
#define SLAB_CACHE_DMA 0x00004000UL /* Use GFP_DMA memory */
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */
-#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */
+/* The following flags affect the page allocator grouping pages by mobility */
+#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */
+#define SLAB_TEMPORARY SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT /* Objects are short-lived */
/*
* ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests.
*