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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2013-09-30 22:45:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-30 23:31:01 +0200 |
| commit | f6ea3adb70b20ae36277a1b0eaaf4da9f6479a28 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d21f9dfff81d06902db1bdd18d0bd575c06065c /mm | |
| parent | fs/binfmt_elf.c: prevent a coredump with a large vm_map_count from Oopsing (diff) | |
| download | linux-f6ea3adb70b20ae36277a1b0eaaf4da9f6479a28.tar.xz linux-f6ea3adb70b20ae36277a1b0eaaf4da9f6479a28.zip | |
mm/compaction.c: periodically schedule when freeing pages
We've been getting warnings about an excessive amount of time spent
allocating pages for migration during memory compaction without
scheduling. isolate_freepages_block() already periodically checks for
contended locks or the need to schedule, but isolate_freepages() never
does.
When a zone is massively long and no suitable targets can be found, this
iteration can be quite expensive without ever doing cond_resched().
Check periodically for the need to reschedule while the compaction free
scanner iterates.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index c43789388cd8..b5326b141a25 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -677,6 +677,13 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone, pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages) { unsigned long isolated; + /* + * This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any + * suitable migration targets, so periodically check if we need + * to schedule. + */ + cond_resched(); + if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) continue; |