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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 8add7daf98b0..fe753ecf2aa5 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2681,6 +2681,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone) static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) { +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU int batch; /* @@ -2709,6 +2710,23 @@ static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) batch = rounddown_pow_of_two(batch + batch/2) - 1; return batch; + +#else + /* The deferral and batching of frees should be suppressed under NOMMU + * conditions. + * + * The problem is that NOMMU needs to be able to allocate large chunks + * of contiguous memory as there's no hardware page translation to + * assemble apparent contiguous memory from discontiguous pages. + * + * Queueing large contiguous runs of pages for batching, however, + * causes the pages to actually be freed in smaller chunks. As there + * can be a significant delay between the individual batches being + * recycled, this leads to the once large chunks of space being + * fragmented and becoming unavailable for high-order allocations. + */ + return 0; +#endif } static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch) |