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mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context
The per-cpu page allocator can be drained immediately via drain_all_pages() which sends IPIs to every CPU. In the next patch, the per-cpu allocator will only be used for interrupt-safe allocations which prevents draining it from IPI context. This patch uses workqueues to drain the per-cpu lists instead. This is slower but no slowdown during intensive reclaim was measured and the paths that use drain_all_pages() are not that sensitive to performance. This is particularly true as the path would only be triggered when reclaim is failing. It also makes a some sense to avoid storming a machine with IPIs when it's under memory pressure. Arguably, it should be further adjusted so that only one caller at a time is draining pages but it's beyond the scope of the current patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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