drain_freelist() can be called with a very large number of slabs to free, such as for kmem_cache_shrink(), or depending on various settings of the slab cache when doing periodic reaping. If there is a potentially long list of slabs to drain, periodically schedule to ensure we aren't saturating the cpu for too long. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2211,6 +2211,8 @@ static int drain_freelist(struct kmem_cache *cache, raw_spin_unlock_irq(&n->list_lock); slab_destroy(cache, slab); nr_freed++; + + cond_resched(); } out: return nr_freed;