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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2012-10-08 16:28:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:15 +0900
commitc654345924f7cce87bb221b89db91cba890421ba (patch)
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mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
When transparent huge pages were introduced, memory compaction and swap storms were an issue, and the kernel had to be careful to not make THP allocations cause pageout or compaction. Now that we have working compaction deferral, kswapd is smart enough to invoke compaction and the quadratic behaviour around isolate_free_pages has been fixed, it should be safe to remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. [minchan@kernel.org: Comment fix] [mgorman@suse.de: Avoid direct reclaim for deferred compaction] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index 575730744fdb..b9adff543f5f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -1056,8 +1056,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
* until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
* the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
* impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
- * or performing I/O.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
*
* Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
* the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
@@ -1071,8 +1070,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
*/
void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
{
- gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
- __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
+ gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
void *kbuf;