page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is disabled

gormanm · torvalds · commit dd5d241ea955 · 2009-09-05T11:30:42.000-07:00
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile. Once disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call to __rmqueue_fallback(). However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership because the normal criteria are not met. This has the effect of prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks. This is most serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot. This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when anti-fragmentation is disabled. This prevents the large blocks being prematurely broken up. This is a fix to commit 49255c6 [page allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -817,13 +817,15 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, int order, int start_migratetype)
 			 * agressive about taking ownership of free pages
 			 */
 			if (unlikely(current_order >= (pageblock_order >> 1)) ||
-					start_migratetype == MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE) {
+					start_migratetype == MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE ||
+					page_group_by_mobility_disabled) {
 				unsigned long pages;
 				pages = move_freepages_block(zone, page,
 								start_migratetype);
 
 				/* Claim the whole block if over half of it is free */
-				if (pages >= (1 << (pageblock_order-1)))
+				if (pages >= (1 << (pageblock_order-1)) ||
+						page_group_by_mobility_disabled)
 					set_pageblock_migratetype(page,
 								start_migratetype);
 
