Re: [patch] mm, slab: periodically resched in drain_freelist()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 12/28/22 07:05, David Rientjes wrote:
> drain_freelist() can be called with a very large number of slabs to free,
> such as for kmem_cache_shrink(), or depending on various settings of the
> slab cache when doing periodic reaping.
> 
> If there is a potentially long list of slabs to drain, periodically
> schedule to ensure we aren't saturating the cpu for too long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, added to slab/for-6.2-rc3/fixes

> ---
>  mm/slab.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -2211,6 +2211,8 @@ static int drain_freelist(struct kmem_cache *cache,
>  		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&n->list_lock);
>  		slab_destroy(cache, slab);
>  		nr_freed++;
> +
> +		cond_resched();
>  	}
>  out:
>  	return nr_freed;