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| author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-05-23 23:18:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-05-23 23:18:40 +0100 |
| commit | fc05505b77f7900a1bb74fb3f3a4343dee4265a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6517919cb60bd9465078512cacbefd8c77f94b76 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | a2ab67fae1ab9226679495a8d260f4e6555efc5f (diff) | |
| parent | 11c79740d3c03cb81f84e98cf2e2dbd8d9bb53cd (diff) | |
Merge branch 'ixp4xx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6 into devel
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) |