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Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:25:54 +0000 (01:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:43:00 +0000 (09:43 -0700)
commit7b3384988f9d445f2bd3b9bfa62083b7449e70b2
tree39ed023e8c36cde0c0f9cba50f945e77d3ca26fatree | snapshot
parent6d45e1f3b780c6d0ca53ffb88ddcb4773d8b612ccommit | diff
Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs

This patch chooses blocks with lower PFNs when placing kernel allocations.
This is particularly important during fallback in low memory situations to
stop unmovable pages being placed throughout the entire address space.

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>
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