Revert "Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs"

This reverts commit 5adc5be7cd.

Alexey Dobriyan reports that it causes huge slowdowns under some loads,
in his case a "mkfs.ext2" on a 30G partition.  With the placement bias,
the mkfs took over four minutes, with it reverted it's back to about ten
seconds for Alexey.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2007-11-12 14:14:44 -08:00
commit 44048d700b