On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:29:11 -0600 "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 18:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:33:16 -0600 "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > --- a/mm/nommu.c 2010-10-21 07:42:23.000000000 -0500
> > > +++ b/mm/nommu.c 2010-10-21 07:46:50.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -1656,6 +1656,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munmap, unsigned long, a
> > > void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > {
> > > struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > > + unsigned long next_yield = jiffies + HZ;
> > >
> > > if (!mm)
> > > return;
> > > @@ -1668,6 +1669,11 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > mm->mmap = vma->vm_next;
> > > delete_vma_from_mm(vma);
> > > delete_vma(mm, vma);
> > > + /* Yield periodically to prevent watchdog timeout */
> > > + if (time_after(jiffies, next_yield)) {
> > > + cond_resched();
> > > + next_yield = jiffies + HZ;
> > > + }
> > > }
> > >
> > > kleave("");
> >
> [snip]
> > cond_resched() is pretty efficient and one second is still
> > a very long time. I suspect you don't need the ratelimiting at all?
>
> Probably not, but the issue was that disposal of "large" VMs can starve
> the system. Since these are not the norm (otherwise this would have been
> fixed long ago) I was attempting to limit the impact on more
> "normal"-sized VMs. Responsiveness is not great with a one-second
> ratelimit, and as KOSAKI Motohiro points out this fix won't work on
> systems with short watchdog intervals. I assumed that these were not
> common.
>
> As efficient as schedule() may be, it still scares me to call it on
> reclaim of every block of memory allocated by a terminating process,
> particularly on the relatively slow processors that inhabit NOMMU land.
This is cond_resched(), not schedule()! cond_resched() is just a few
instructions, except for the super-rare case where it calls schedule().
> It wasn't obvious to me that it has a quick exit. But since we are
> talking about sharing the CPU with other processes perhaps this is only
> an issue in an OOM scenario, when fast reclaim might be more important.
>
> I can certainly respin the patch to call cond_resched() unconditionally
> if that's the consensus.
You have a consensus of 1 so far :)
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