[RFC 2/8] Basic allocation for higher order page cache pages

[Christoph Lameter]

Variable Order Page Cache: Add basic allocation functions

Extend __page_cache_alloc to take an order parameter and
modify caller sites. Modify mapping_set_gfp_mask to set
__GFP_COMP if the mapping requires higher order allocations.

put_page() is already capable of handling compound pages. So
there are no changes needed to release higher order page
cache pages.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

---
 include/linux/pagemap.h |   15 +++++++++------
 mm/filemap.c            |    9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/include/linux/pagemap.h	2007-04-18 21:21:56.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h	2007-04-18 21:29:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ static inline void mapping_set_gfp_mask(
 {
 	m->flags = (m->flags & ~(__force unsigned long)__GFP_BITS_MASK) |
 				(__force unsigned long)mask;
+	if (m->order)
+		m->flags |= __GFP_COMP;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void mapping_set_gfp_mask(
  * throughput (it can then be mapped into user
  * space in smaller chunks for same flexibility).
  *
- * Or rather, it _will_ be done in larger chunks.
+ * This is the base page size
  */
 #define PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT	PAGE_SHIFT
 #define PAGE_CACHE_SIZE		PAGE_SIZE
@@ -52,22 +54,23 @@ static inline void mapping_set_gfp_mask(
 void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, int cold);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-extern struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp);
+extern struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int order);
 #else
-static inline struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
+static inline struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int order)
 {
-	return alloc_pages(gfp, 0);
+	return alloc_pages(gfp, order);
 }
 #endif
 
 static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc(struct address_space *x)
 {
-	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x));
+	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x), x->order);
 }
 
 static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc_cold(struct address_space *x)
 {
-	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x)|__GFP_COLD);
+	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x)|__GFP_COLD,
+		x->order);
 }
 
 typedef int filler_t(void *, struct page *);
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/mm/filemap.c	2007-04-18 21:21:56.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c	2007-04-18 21:28:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -467,13 +467,13 @@ int add_to_page_cache_lru(struct page *p
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
+struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int order)
 {
 	if (cpuset_do_page_mem_spread()) {
 		int n = cpuset_mem_spread_node();
-		return alloc_pages_node(n, gfp, 0);
+		return alloc_pages_node(n, gfp, order);
 	}
-	return alloc_pages(gfp, 0);
+	return alloc_pages(gfp, order);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_cache_alloc);
 #endif
@@ -803,7 +803,8 @@ grab_cache_page_nowait(struct address_sp
 		page_cache_release(page);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_FS);
+	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_FS,
+		mapping->order);
 	if (page && add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, GFP_KERNEL)) {
 		page_cache_release(page);
 		page = NULL;
-
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