Re: [PATCH v2] swap: cond_resched in swap_cgroup_prepare()

[Michal Hocko]

[CC Andrew]

On Sun 04-06-17 13:01:09, Yu Zhao wrote:
> Saw need_resched() warnings when swapping on large swapfile (TBs)
> because continuously allocating many pages in swap_cgroup_prepare()
> took too long.
> 
> We already cond_resched when freeing page in swap_cgroup_swapoff().
> Do the same for the page allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog since v1:
> * clarify the problem in the commit message
> 
>  mm/swap_cgroup.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/swap_cgroup.c b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> index ac6318a064d3..3405b4ee1757 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ static int swap_cgroup_prepare(int type)
>  		if (!page)
>  			goto not_enough_page;
>  		ctrl->map[idx] = page;
> +
> +		if (!(idx % SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX))
> +			cond_resched();
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  not_enough_page:
> -- 
> 2.13.0.506.g27d5fe0cd-goog

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs