From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>,
Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: cma: introduce cma_release_nowait()
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:10:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFxhk7ZRNzXopsJ6@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFxdwr2+jLLMAII0@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu 25-03-21 10:54:10, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:45:18AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 24-03-21 17:28:28, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > [...]
> > > phys_addr_t cma_get_base(const struct cma *cma)
> > > {
> > > return PFN_PHYS(cma->base_pfn);
> > > @@ -146,6 +155,10 @@ static int __init cma_init_reserved_areas(void)
> > > for (i = 0; i < cma_area_count; i++)
> > > cma_activate_area(&cma_areas[i]);
> > >
> > > + cma_release_wq = create_workqueue("cma_release");
> >
> > Considering the workqueue is used to free up memory it should likely be
> > WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to prevent from long stalls when WQs are overloaded.
>
> I might be missing something but the worqueue->func() seems to not be anything
> for memory related purposes.
> The worqueue calls cma_clear_bitmap_fn(), and the only think that does
> is freeing one page, and clearing the bitmap.
No, it shouldn't realease a sing page. That is a bug which I have
overlooked as well. I should free up the whole count worth of pages.
But fundamentally the worker does all the heavy lifting and frees up the
memory.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-25 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-25 0:28 [PATCH 0/8] make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: cma: introduce cma_release_nowait() Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 9:39 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 9:45 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 9:54 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 10:10 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-03-25 10:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 10:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 10:17 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 10:24 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 9:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 10:22 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 16:56 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 17:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 20:12 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-25 23:19 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-03-25 23:49 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-26 21:32 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-29 7:46 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-29 22:27 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: hugetlb: don't drop hugetlb_lock around cma_release() call Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 3/8] hugetlb: add per-hstate mutex to synchronize user adjustments Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 12:29 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-26 1:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 4/8] hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 10:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-26 2:10 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-26 19:57 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-27 1:40 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-27 6:36 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 5/8] hugetlb: call update_and_free_page without hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 10:55 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 17:12 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 19:39 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 20:33 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-27 6:54 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-03-28 21:40 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 6/8] hugetlb: change free_pool_huge_page to remove_pool_huge_page Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 11:06 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 17:29 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 11:21 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 17:32 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-27 7:06 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-03-29 7:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-29 22:44 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 0:28 ` [PATCH 8/8] hugetlb: add lockdep_assert_held() calls for hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
2021-03-25 11:22 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-26 2:12 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-27 8:14 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-03-26 1:42 ` [PATCH 0/8] make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts Miaohe Lin
2021-03-26 20:00 ` Mike Kravetz
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