commit e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093
author Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tue Oct 16 01:25:52 2007 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> Tue Oct 16 09:43:00 2007 -0700
tree a0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb
parent c361be55b3128474aa66d31092db330b07539103

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>