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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2017-02-24 14:56:32 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -0800 |
commit | 0ccce3b924212e121503619df97cc0f17189b77b (patch) | |
tree | 8f365e995db4d0dd9cc0735750376c8866f279ba /mm/early_ioremap.c | |
parent | 9cd7555875bb09dad875e89a76f41f576e11c638 (diff) |
mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context
The per-cpu page allocator can be drained immediately via
drain_all_pages() which sends IPIs to every CPU. In the next patch, the
per-cpu allocator will only be used for interrupt-safe allocations which
prevents draining it from IPI context. This patch uses workqueues to
drain the per-cpu lists instead.
This is slower but no slowdown during intensive reclaim was measured and
the paths that use drain_all_pages() are not that sensitive to
performance. This is particularly true as the path would only be
triggered when reclaim is failing. It also makes a some sense to avoid
storming a machine with IPIs when it's under memory pressure. Arguably,
it should be further adjusted so that only one caller at a time is
draining pages but it's beyond the scope of the current patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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