A mirror of the official Linux kernel repository just in case
Go to file
Roman Gushchin 1686766493 mm,page_alloc,cma: conditionally prefer cma pageblocks for movable allocations
Currently a cma area is barely used by the page allocator because it's
used only as a fallback from movable, however kswapd tries hard to make
sure that the fallback path isn't used.

This results in a system evicting memory and pushing data into swap, while
lots of CMA memory is still available.  This happens despite the fact that
alloc_contig_range is perfectly capable of moving any movable allocations
out of the way of an allocation.

To effectively use the cma area let's alter the rules: if the zone has
more free cma pages than the half of total free pages in the zone, use cma
pageblocks first and fallback to movable blocks in the case of failure.

[guro@fb.com: ifdef the cma-specific code]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311225832.GA178154@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com
Co-developed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306150102.3e77354b@imladris.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
arch mm: rename free_area_init_node() to free_area_init_memoryless_node() 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
block for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:37:03 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
Documentation docs/vm: update memory-models documentation 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
drivers drm/i915: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() 2020-06-03 20:09:42 -07:00
fs Changes since last update: 2020-06-02 20:16:55 -07:00
include mm: rename free_area_init_node() to free_area_init_memoryless_node() 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
init arm64 updates for 5.8 2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel audit/stable-5.8 PR 20200601 2020-06-02 17:13:37 -07:00
lib kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE 2020-06-03 20:09:42 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm,page_alloc,cma: conditionally prefer cma pageblocks for movable allocations 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
net audit/stable-5.8 PR 20200601 2020-06-02 17:13:37 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'from-miklos' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-06-01 16:44:06 -07:00
scripts A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-02 12:21:36 -07:00
tools for-5.8/block-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:29:19 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:37:03 -07:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 5.8 2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.