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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

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
 };