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mm/page_alloc.c: avoid excessive IRQ disabled times in free_unref_page_list()
authorLucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:32:55 +0000 (15:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:48 +0000 (16:00 -0800)
commit652ea942c70ab0f0c7117e279a70e5b5c44470fe
tree4a2121e76b9561c1cdd85d58c41192c570b284b0
parent8492b3bde5a21753e5761611306250320238cb1c
mm/page_alloc.c: avoid excessive IRQ disabled times in free_unref_page_list()

Since commit 5539c8df1e5e ("mm, page_alloc: enable/disable IRQs once
when freeing a list of pages") we see excessive IRQ disabled times of up
to 25ms on an embedded ARM system (tracing overhead included).

This is due to graphics buffers being freed back to the system via
release_pages().  Graphics buffers can be huge, so it's not hard to hit
cases where the list of pages to free has 2048 entries.  Disabling IRQs
while freeing all those pages is clearly not a good idea.

Introduce a batch limit, which allows IRQ servicing once every few
pages.  The batch count is the same as used in other parts of the MM
subsystem when dealing with IRQ disabled regions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171207170314.4419-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de
Fixes: 5539c8df1e5e ("mm, page_alloc: enable/disable IRQs once when freeing a list of pages")
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c