From b716ad953a2bc4a543143c1d9836b7007a4b182f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiao Guangrong Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:33:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: search from free_area_cache for the bigger size If the required size is bigger than cached_hole_size it is better to search from free_area_cache - it is easier to get a free region, specifically for the 64 bit process whose address space is large enough Do it just as hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown() in arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed