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authorArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>2009-02-17 14:51:02 -0800
committerArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>2013-07-01 13:40:18 -0700
commit6df890364b72edc57fb74aa0f59668450fa678ff (patch)
tree5f9f93625ad99e65356a1edc02835aa376cd7862 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent4dd5d0b12965bd30423fbdf4ee6763226dedc83c (diff)
mm: Add min_free_order_shift tunable.
By default the kernel tries to keep half as much memory free at each order as it does for one order below. This can be too agressive when running without swap. Change-Id: I5efc1a0b50f41ff3ac71e92d2efd175dedd54ead Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c3edb624fcc..58f55f605ad 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {
};
int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
+int min_free_order_shift = 1;
static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
@@ -1648,7 +1649,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
free_pages -= z->free_area[o].nr_free << o;
/* Require fewer higher order pages to be free */
- min >>= 1;
+ min >>= min_free_order_shift;
if (free_pages <= min)
return false;