Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/mmu_gather: limit tlb batch count and add schedule point in tlb_batch_pages_flush

[wangjianxing <wangjianxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/16/2022 04:57 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This seems like a really complicated way of writing something like the
> below...
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c
> index afb7185ffdc4..b382e86c1b47 100644
> --- a/mm/mmu_gather.c
> +++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c
> @@ -47,8 +47,17 @@ static void tlb_batch_pages_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
>   	struct mmu_gather_batch *batch;
>   
>   	for (batch = &tlb->local; batch && batch->nr; batch = batch->next) {
> -		free_pages_and_swap_cache(batch->pages, batch->nr);
> -		batch->nr = 0;
> +		struct page_struct *pages = batch->pages;
> +
> +		do {
> +			int nr = min(512, batch->nr);
> +
> +			free_pages_and_swap_cache(pages, nr);
> +			pages += nr;
> +			batch->nr -= nr;
> +
> +			cond_resched();
> +		} while (batch->nr);
>   	}
>   	tlb->active = &tlb->local;
>   }
Yeah, it looks nicer.

I will resubmit the patch.