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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:46:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:42 -0800
commit5c3240d92e29ae7bfb9cb58a9b37e80ab40894ff (patch)
treefffa9f90492b61ef1578e1c41118024c81d77863 /mm
parent32dba98e085f8b2b4345887df9abf5e0e93bfc12 (diff)
downloadlinux-5c3240d92e29ae7bfb9cb58a9b37e80ab40894ff.tar.bz2
thp: don't alloc harder for gfp nomemalloc even if nowait
Not worth throwing away the precious reserved free memory pool for allocations that can fail gracefully (either through mempool or because they're transhuge allocations later falling back to 4k allocations). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bbd0423f2820..e7664b9f706c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,12 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
alloc_flags |= (__force int) (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH);
if (!wait) {
- alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+ /*
+ * Not worth trying to allocate harder for
+ * __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even if it can't schedule.
+ */
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))
+ alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
/*
* Ignore cpuset if GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) rather than fail alloc.
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.