From e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:25:52 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/pageblock-flags.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/pageblock-flags.h') diff --git a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h index 3619d52a425c..5456da6b4ade 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 }; -- cgit v1.2.3