Matthew, this issue was last reported in September 2018 on K4.9.
I verified that the optimization patches mentioned by you were not
present in our downstream kernel when we faced the issue. I will check
whether issue still persist on new kernel with all these patches and
come back.
On 04/01/19 11:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:05:41PM +0530, Ashish Mhetre wrote:
From: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
The purpose of lazy_max_pages is to gather virtual address space till it
reaches the lazy_max_pages limit and then purge with a TLB flush and hence
reduce the number of global TLB flushes.
The default value of lazy_max_pages with one CPU is 32MB and with 4 CPUs it
is 96MB i.e. for 4 cores, 96MB of vmalloc space will be gathered before it
is purged with a TLB flush.
This feature has shown random latency issues. For example, we have seen
that the kernel thread for some camera application spent 30ms in
__purge_vmap_area_lazy() with 4 CPUs.
You're not the first to report something like this. Looking through the
kernel logs, I see:
commit 763b218ddfaf56761c19923beb7e16656f66ec62
Author: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 12 16:44:26 2016 -0800
mm: add preempt points into __purge_vmap_area_lazy()
commit f9e09977671b618aeb25ddc0d4c9a84d5b5cde9d
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 12 16:44:23 2016 -0800
mm: turn vmap_purge_lock into a mutex
commit 80c4bd7a5e4368b680e0aeb57050a1b06eb573d8
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 20 16:57:38 2016 -0700
mm/vmalloc: keep a separate lazy-free list
So the first thing I want to do is to confirm that you see this problem
on a modern kernel. We've had trouble with NVidia before reporting
historical problems as if they were new.
