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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-10-16 01:25:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:00 -0700
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 678d39deb607..7da0cf50873e 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
struct dentry *dentry;
char *dname;
- dentry = kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ dentry = kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dentry)
return NULL;