From 5c3240d92e29ae7bfb9cb58a9b37e80ab40894ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:46:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] thp: don't alloc harder for gfp nomemalloc even if nowait
Not worth throwing away the precious reserved free memory pool for
allocations that can fail gracefully (either through mempool or because
they're transhuge allocations later falling back to 4k allocations).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-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>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bbd0423f28204..e7664b9f706c3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,12 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
alloc_flags |= (__force int) (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH);
if (!wait) {
- alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+ /*
+ * Not worth trying to allocate harder for
+ * __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even if it can't schedule.
+ */
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))
+ alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
/*
* Ignore cpuset if GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) rather than fail alloc.
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
--
2.30.2