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Commit df48a5f7 authored by Liam R. Howlett's avatar Liam R. Howlett Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/page_alloc: reduce potential fragmentation in make_alloc_exact()

Try to avoid using the left over split page on the next request for a page
by calling __free_pages_ok() with FPI_TO_TAIL.  This increases the
potential of defragmenting memory when it's used for a short period of
time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531185626.yvlmymbxyoe5vags@revolver


Signed-off-by: default avatarLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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