Skip to content
Commit 46dafbca authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

Be more agressive about stealing when MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE allocations fallback



MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE allocations tend to be very bursty in nature like when
updatedb starts.  It is likely this will occur in situations where MAX_ORDER
blocks of pages are not free.  This means that updatedb can scatter
MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE pages throughout the address space.  This patch is more
agressive about stealing blocks of pages for MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 5adc5be7
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment