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    Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations · e12ba74d
    Mel Gorman authored
    This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
    network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
    like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
    be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.
    
    This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
    new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
    reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
    them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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