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Commit 5adc5be7 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs



This patch chooses blocks with lower PFNs when placing kernel allocations.
This is particularly important during fallback in low memory situations to
stop unmovable pages being placed throughout the entire address space.

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 9ef9acb0
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