From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:25:50 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Drain per-cpu lists when high-order allocations fail
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1139
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2c55dc87f4a398b9c4dcc702dbc23a07fe14e23;p=linux-2.6

Drain per-cpu lists when high-order allocations fail

Per-cpu pages can accidentally cause fragmentation because they are free, but
pinned pages in an otherwise contiguous block.  When this patch is applied,
the per-cpu caches are drained after the direct-reclaim is entered if the
requested order is greater than 0.  It simply reuses the code used by suspend
and hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fea1e3b56c..aa7e5d2f28 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -876,7 +876,9 @@ void mark_free_pages(struct zone *zone)
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_HIBERNATION) || defined(CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY)
 /*
  * Spill all of this CPU's per-cpu pages back into the buddy allocator.
  */
@@ -888,7 +890,28 @@ void drain_local_pages(void)
 	__drain_pages(smp_processor_id());
 	local_irq_restore(flags);	
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
+
+void smp_drain_local_pages(void *arg)
+{
+	drain_local_pages();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Spill all the per-cpu pages from all CPUs back into the buddy allocator
+ */
+void drain_all_local_pages(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	__drain_pages(smp_processor_id());
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+	smp_call_function(smp_drain_local_pages, NULL, 0, 1);
+}
+#else
+void drain_all_local_pages(void) {}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION || CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY */
 
 /*
  * Free a 0-order page
@@ -1480,6 +1503,9 @@ nofail_alloc:
 
 	cond_resched();
 
+	if (order != 0)
+		drain_all_local_pages();
+
 	if (likely(did_some_progress)) {
 		page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
 						zonelist, alloc_flags);