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/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
index 519d3f00ef9e..6b26f9d39800 100644
--- a/lib/radix-tree.c
+++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ radix_tree_node_alloc(struct radix_tree_root *root)
         struct radix_tree_node *ret;
         gfp_t gfp_mask = root_gfp_mask(root);
 
-        ret = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, gfp_mask);
+        ret = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep,
+                                set_migrateflags(gfp_mask, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE));
         if (ret == NULL && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) {
                 struct radix_tree_preload *rtp;
 
@@ -142,7 +143,8 @@ int radix_tree_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask)
         rtp = &__get_cpu_var(radix_tree_preloads);
         while (rtp->nr < ARRAY_SIZE(rtp->nodes)) {
                 preempt_enable();
-                node = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, gfp_mask);
+                node = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep,
+                                set_migrateflags(gfp_mask, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE));
                 if (node == NULL)
                         goto out;
                 preempt_disable();