Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or...
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:47:45 +0000 (10:47 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:47:45 +0000 (10:47 -0800)
commit31f8d42d44b48ba72b586ca03e810cbbd21ea16b
treeecb5b522d62a4ffbe8b1511baade7e7120a3d8c5
parented23ec4f0a510528e0ffe415f9394107418ae854
Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended"

This reverts commit 782fd30406ecb9d9b082816abe0c6008fc72a7b0.

We are going to reinstate the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag that has been
removed, the removal reverted, and then removed again.  Making this
commit a pointless fixup for a problem that was caused by the removal of
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag.

The thing is, we really don't want to wake up kswapd for THP allocations
(because they fail quite commonly under any kind of memory pressure,
including when there is tons of memory free), and these patches were
just trying to fix up the underlying bug: the original removal of
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD in commit c654345924f7 ("mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD")
was simply bogus.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c