[PATCH 1/2] Reducing fragmentation through better allocation

Changelog since V6 o Updated to 2.6.11-rc2 o Minor change to allow prezeroing to be a cleaner looking patch Changelog since V5 o Fixed up gcc-2.95 errors o Fixed up whitespace damage Changelog since V4 o No changes. Applies cleanly against 2.6.11-rc1 and 2.6.11-rc1-bk6. Applies with offsets to

Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Reducing fragmentation through better allocation

Changelog since V2 o Do not to interfere with the "min" decay o Update the __GFP_BITS_SHIFT properly. Old value broke fsync and probably a lot more besides This patch divides allocations into three different types of allocations; UserReclaimable - These are userspace pages that are easily recl