Re: [PATCH] mm: reduce spinlock contention in release_pages()

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 26-11-21 16:26:23, Hao Lee wrote:
[...]
> I will try Matthew's idea to use semaphore or mutex to limit the number of BE
> jobs that are in the exiting path. This sounds like a feasible approach for
> our scenario...

I am not really sure this is something that would be acceptable. Your
problem is resource partitioning. Papering that over by a lock is not
the right way to go. Besides that you will likely hit a hard question on
how many tasks to allow to run concurrently. Whatever the value some
workload will very likely going to suffer. We cannot assume admin to
chose the right value because there is no clear answer for that. Not to
mention other potential problems - e.g. even more priority inversions
etc.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs