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Commit 6d4831c2 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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vfs: avoid large kmalloc()s for the fdtable

Azurit reports large increases in system time after 2.6.36 when running
Apache.  It was bisected down to a892e2d7

 ("vfs: use kmalloc()
to allocate fdmem if possible").

That patch caused the vfs to use kmalloc() for very large allocations and
this is causing excessive work (and presumably excessive reclaim) within
the page allocator.

Fix it by falling back to vmalloc() earlier - when the allocation attempt
would have been considered "costly" by reclaim.

Reported-by: default avatarazurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Tested-by: default avatarazurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Acked-by: default avatarChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e8dad694
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