On 11/18/2013 12:20 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: >> > Really, though, a lot of things seem to have MAX_ORDER set up so that >> > it's at 256MB or 512MB. That's an awful lot to do between rescheds. > Yes. > > BTW, I found that we have the same problem for other functions like > copy_user_gigantic_page, copy_user_huge_page, and maybe clear_gigantic_page. > So we had better handle them too. Is there a problem you're trying to solve here? The common case of the cond_resched() call boils down to a read of a percpu variable which will surely be in the L1 cache after the first run around the loop. In other words, it's about as cheap of an operation as we're going to get. Why bother trying to "optimize" it? -- 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>