From c654345924f7cce87bb221b89db91cba890421ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:28:21 -0700 Subject: mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD When transparent huge pages were introduced, memory compaction and swap storms were an issue, and the kernel had to be careful to not make THP allocations cause pageout or compaction. Now that we have working compaction deferral, kswapd is smart enough to invoke compaction and the quadratic behaviour around isolate_free_pages has been fixed, it should be safe to remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. [minchan@kernel.org: Comment fix] [mgorman@suse.de: Avoid direct reclaim for deferred compaction] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 575730744fd..b9adff543f5 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -1056,8 +1056,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we - * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back - * or performing I/O. + * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying. * * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value. @@ -1071,8 +1070,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); */ void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size) { - gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | - __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD; + gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY; size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE); void *kbuf; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2