kernel-ark/mm
Johannes Weiner 0f3caba211 bootmem: respect goal more likely
The old node-agnostic code tried allocating on all nodes starting from the
one with the lowest range.  alloc_bootmem_core retried without the goal if
it could not satisfy it and so the goal was only respected at all when it
happened to be on the first (lowest page numbers) node (or theoretically
if allocations failed on all nodes before to the one holding the goal).

Introduce a non-panicking helper that starts allocating from the node
holding the goal and falls back only after all thes tries failed, thus
moving the goal fallback code out of alloc_bootmem_core.

Make all other allocation functions benefit from this new helper.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
..
allocpercpu.c Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation 2008-05-20 13:31:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: respect goal more likely 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c generic_file_aio_read() cleanups 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c highmem: Export totalhigh_pages. 2008-07-19 22:39:46 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: quota is not freed for unused reserved private huge pages 2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
internal.h mm: export prep_compound_page to mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-07-14 13:37:29 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: simple stats for memory resource controller 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node() 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
memory.c hugetlb: introduce pud_huge 2008-07-24 10:47:18 -07:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm/migrate.c should #include <linux/syscalls.h> 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c
mm_init.c mm: create /sys/kernel/mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmap.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c mm: record MAP_NORESERVE status on vmas and fix small page mprotect reservations 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: Correct kobjsize() page validity checks. 2008-06-12 07:56:17 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: export prep_compound_page to mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2008-07-15 08:36:38 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c mm/pdflush.c: merge the same code in two path 2008-05-13 08:02:24 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c tmpfs: support aio 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
slob.c slob: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
slub.c slub: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c Christoph has moved 2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
sparse.c mm: make defensive checks around PFN values registered for memory usage 2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
swap.c mm: fix atomic_t overflow in vm 2008-05-24 09:56:09 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: use non-racy method for /proc/swaps creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c
vmalloc.c vmallocinfo: add NUMA information 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages() 2008-06-12 18:05:39 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: proper externs 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00