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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: thp: use down_read_trylock in khugepaged to avoid long block
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On 12/18/17 12:41 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 16-12-17 23:09:25, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:45:25PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Sat 16-12-17 04:04:10, Yang Shi wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Shall we add "cond_resched()" in unmap_vmas(), i.e for every 100 vmas? It
>>>> may improve the responsiveness a little bit for non-preempt kernel, although
>>>> it still can't release the semaphore.
>>>
>>> We already do, once per pmd (see zap_pmd_range).
>>
>> It doesn't help. We would need to find a way to drop mmap_sem, if we're
>> holding it way too long. And doing it on per-vma count basis is not right
>> call. It won't address issue with single huge vma.
>
> Absolutely agreed. I just wanted to point out that a new cond_resched is
> not really needed. One way to reduce the lock starvation is to use range
> locking.

It looks the range locking development is stalled?

Yang

>
>> Do we have any instrumentation that would help detect starvation on a
>> rw_semaphore?
>
> I am afraid we don't.
>

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