Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: add cond_resched() in THP branch of madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 09:32:14AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 01:58:18PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 10:26:33AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 10:40:42AM +0800, albin_yang@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > This same improvement came naturally from refactoring the entire
> > > function into a proper pagewalk structure:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260922235830.2350770-10-gourry@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > > this function is really nasty.
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > And thank you for looking at this horror show of a function.
> >
> > But yeah as Andrew said, need something for the backport, then your work can
> > help eliminate the source of such things! :)
> >
>
> Oh yeah totally reasonable, just pointing out that two separate efforts
> came to the same conclusion.

Yeah, it's nice it fell out that way!

>
> ~Gregory

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Cheers, Lorenzo