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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-05-24 17:32:27 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 11:06:59 -0400
commit748446bb6b5a9390b546af38ec899c868a9dbcf0 (patch)
tree4c27d0805a5e094b39ff938ad60dd270b953a79f /include/linux/mm.h
parentc175a0ce7584e5b498fff8cbdb9aa7912aa9fbba (diff)
mm: compaction: memory compaction core
This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone. A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner. Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone. The migration scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable pages within each area, isolating them onto a private list called migratelist. The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches for suitable areas and consumes the free pages within making them available for the migration scanner. The pages isolated for migration are then migrated to the newly isolated free pages. [aarcange@redhat.com: Fix unsafe optimisation] [mel@csn.ul.ie: do not schedule work on other CPUs for compaction] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 98ea5bab963e..963f908af9d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ void put_page(struct page *page);
337void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages); 337void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages);
338 338
339void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order); 339void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
340int split_free_page(struct page *page);
340 341
341/* 342/*
342 * Compound pages have a destructor function. Provide a 343 * Compound pages have a destructor function. Provide a