1. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE · 396faf03
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE.  However,
      as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it
      can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been
      running a long time.  This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool
      at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE.
      
      This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable.  When a
      non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool
      will use ZONE_MOVABLE.  Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not
      introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always
      the largest contiguous block we care about.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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  2. 17 7月, 2007 39 次提交