Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 Ã 19:21 +0800, AmÃrico Wang a Ãcrit : > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Cced few people. > > > > Also the series which introduced this were discussed at: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/3/53 > > > > I guess this is due to that lots of fdt are allocated by kmalloc(), > not vmalloc(), and we kfree() them in rcu callback. > > How about deferring all of the removal to workqueue? This may > hurt performance I think. > > Anyway, like the patch below... makes sense? > > Not-yet-signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c > index 0be3447..34dc355 100644 > --- a/fs/file.c > +++ b/fs/file.c > @@ -96,20 +96,14 @@ void free_fdtable_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) > container_of(fdt, struct files_struct, fdtab)); > return; > } > - if (!is_vmalloc_addr(fdt->fd) && !is_vmalloc_addr(fdt->open_fds)) { > - kfree(fdt->fd); > - kfree(fdt->open_fds); > - kfree(fdt); > - } else { > - fddef = &get_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); > - spin_lock(&fddef->lock); > - fdt->next = fddef->next; > - fddef->next = fdt; > - /* vmallocs are handled from the workqueue context */ > - schedule_work(&fddef->wq); > - spin_unlock(&fddef->lock); > - put_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); > - } > + > + fddef = &get_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); > + spin_lock(&fddef->lock); > + fdt->next = fddef->next; > + fddef->next = fdt; > + schedule_work(&fddef->wq); > + spin_unlock(&fddef->lock); > + put_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); > } Nope, this makes no sense at all. Its probably the other way. We want to free those blocks ASAP A fix would be to make alloc_fdmem() use vmalloc() if size is more than 4 pages, or whatever limit is reached. We had a similar memory problem in fib_trie in the past : We force a synchronize_rcu() every XXX Mbytes allocated to make sure we dont have too much ram waiting to be freed in rcu queues. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>