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, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/revoke.c b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
index 62e13c8db132..ad2eacf570c6 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/revoke.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
@@ -170,13 +170,15 @@ int __init journal_init_revoke_caches(void)
 {
         revoke_record_cache = kmem_cache_create("revoke_record",
                                            sizeof(struct jbd_revoke_record_s),
-                                           0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+                                           0,
+                                           SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_TEMPORARY,
+                                           NULL);
         if (revoke_record_cache == 0)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
         revoke_table_cache = kmem_cache_create("revoke_table",
                                            sizeof(struct jbd_revoke_table_s),
-                                           0, 0, NULL);
+                                           0, SLAB_TEMPORARY, NULL);
         if (revoke_table_cache == 0) {
                 kmem_cache_destroy(revoke_record_cache);
                 revoke_record_cache = NULL;