On 06/10/2017 04:06 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > A few hugetlb allocators loop while calling the page allocator and can > potentially prevent rescheduling if the page allocator slowpath is not > utilized. > > Conditionally schedule when large numbers of hugepages can be allocated. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes a task which was getting hung while writing like 10000 hugepages (16MB on POWER8) into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. Tested-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
