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Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
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A caller initiates the drain procces from its context once the
drain threshold is reached or passed. There are at least two
drawbacks of doing so:
a) a caller can be a high-prio or RT task. In that case it can
stuck in doing the actual drain of all lazily freed areas.
This is not optimal because such tasks usually are latency
sensitive where the control should be returned back as soon
as possible in order to drive such workloads in time. See
96e2db4561 ("mm/vmalloc: rework the drain logic")
b) It is not safe to call vfree() during holding a spinlock due
to the vmap_purge_lock mutex. The was a report about this from
Zeal Robot <[email protected]> here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
Moving the drain to the separate work context addresses those
issues.
v1->v2:
- Added prefix "_work" to the drain worker function.
v2->v3:
- Remove the drain_vmap_work_in_progress. Extra queuing
is expectable under heavy load but it can be disregarded
because a work will bail out if nothing to be done.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Averin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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