mm, page_alloc: remove MIGRATE_RESERVE
authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 00:28:34 +0000 (16:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:50:42 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
commit974a786e63c96a2401a78ddba926f34c128474f1
treec3551fdc6208bc2f764455cb73ad676a965a17e0
parentf77cf4e4cc9d40310a7224a1a67c733aeec78836
mm, page_alloc: remove MIGRATE_RESERVE

MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that
existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages
tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the
allocation.  At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic
allocations relied on this property so MIGRATE_RESERVE was introduced.  A
later patch will introduce an alternative MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC so this patch
deletes MIGRATE_RESERVE and supporting code so it'll be easier to review.
Note that this patch in isolation may look like a false regression if
someone was bisecting high-order atomic allocation failures.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmstat.c