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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-23 16:42:19 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-23 16:42:19 -0700 |
| commit | ee0736627d3347be0be2769fa7b26431f9726c9d (patch) | |
| tree | 203e2204daaec4cf005463fdf2c7bf380d6eef36 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | cf9972a921470b0a2da7906104bcd540b20e33bf (diff) | |
| parent | 0af48f42df15b97080b450d24219dd95db7b929a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/setup
Resolved conflicts:
arch/x86/boot/memory.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e2f26991fff..fe753ecf2aa 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2681,6 +2681,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone) static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) { +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU int batch; /* @@ -2706,9 +2707,26 @@ static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) * of pages of one half of the possible page colors * and the other with pages of the other colors. */ - batch = (1 << (fls(batch + batch/2)-1)) - 1; + batch = rounddown_pow_of_two(batch + batch/2) - 1; return batch; + +#else + /* The deferral and batching of frees should be suppressed under NOMMU + * conditions. + * + * The problem is that NOMMU needs to be able to allocate large chunks + * of contiguous memory as there's no hardware page translation to + * assemble apparent contiguous memory from discontiguous pages. + * + * Queueing large contiguous runs of pages for batching, however, + * causes the pages to actually be freed in smaller chunks. As there + * can be a significant delay between the individual batches being + * recycled, this leads to the once large chunks of space being + * fragmented and becoming unavailable for high-order allocations. + */ + return 0; +#endif } static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch) |