1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8add7daf98b0..fe753ecf2aa5 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2681,6 +2681,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
 
 static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
         int batch;
 
         /*
@@ -2709,6 +2710,23 @@ static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
         batch = rounddown_pow_of_two(batch + batch/2) - 1;
 
         return batch;
+
+#else
+        /* The deferral and batching of frees should be suppressed under NOMMU
+         * conditions.
+         *
+         * The problem is that NOMMU needs to be able to allocate large chunks
+         * of contiguous memory as there's no hardware page translation to
+         * assemble apparent contiguous memory from discontiguous pages.
+         *
+         * Queueing large contiguous runs of pages for batching, however,
+         * causes the pages to actually be freed in smaller chunks.  As there
+         * can be a significant delay between the individual batches being
+         * recycled, this leads to the once large chunks of space being
+         * fragmented and becoming unavailable for high-order allocations.
+         */
+        return 0;
+#endif
 }
 
 static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch)