vfs: avoid large kmalloc()s for the fdtable
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:26:41 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:28:20 +0000 (11:28 -0700)
commit6d4831c283530a5f2c6bd8172c13efa236eb149d
tree4d199a330cfe8710de0deb4e805a798c2982501c
parente8dad69408a9812d6bb42d03e74d2c314534a4fa
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 a892e2d7dcdfa6c76e6 ("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: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Tested-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/file.c