Re: [RFC] high preempt off latency in vfree path

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On 03/22/16 19:44, Andi Kleen wrote:
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One is we reduce the number of lazy_max_pages (right now its around 32MB per core worth of pages).

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index aa3891e..2720f4f 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ static unsigned long lazy_max_pages(void)

         log = fls(num_online_cpus());

-       return log * (32UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
+       return log * (8UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
  }

This seems like the right fix to me.  Perhaps even make it somewhat smaller.

Even on larger systems it's probably fine because they have a lot more
cores/threads these days, so it will be still sufficiently large.


Thanks Andi. I'll post a patch then.

Regards,
Joel

-Andi

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