[PATCH 10/12] mm, page_alloc: Remove MIGRATE_RESERVE

2015-08-24 Thread Mel Gorman
MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the allocation. At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic allocations

[PATCH 10/12] mm, page_alloc: Remove MIGRATE_RESERVE

2015-08-24 Thread Mel Gorman
MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the allocation. At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic allocations