Re: [PATCH] mm: terminate shrink_slab loop if signal is pending

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

> According to my traces this 43ms could drop to the average of 11ms and
> worst case 25ms if throttle_direct_reclaim would return true when
> fatal signal is pending but I would like to hear your opinion about
> throttle_direct_reclaim logic.

Digging some more into this I realize my last statement might be
incorrect. Throttling in this situation might not help with the signal
handling delay because of the logic in __alloc_pages_slowpath. I'll
have to experiment with this first, please disregard that last
statement for now.