Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759760AbcJRKkc (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:40:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f196.google.com ([209.85.192.196]:34135 "EHLO mail-pf0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753425AbcJRKkW (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:40:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:40:11 +1100 From: Nicholas Piggin To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, joelaf@google.com, jszhang@marvell.com, chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, joaodias@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] reduce latency in __purge_vmap_area_lazy Message-ID: <20161018214011.02b0deab@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1476773771-11470-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> References: <1476773771-11470-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Organization: IBM X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 502 Lines: 16 On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:56:05 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this is my spin at sorting out the long lock hold times in > __purge_vmap_area_lazy. It is based on the patch from Joel sent this > week. I don't have any good numbers for it, but it survived an > xfstests run on XFS which is a significant vmalloc user. The > changelogs could still be improved as well, but I'd rather get it > out quickly for feedback and testing. All seems pretty good to me. Thanks, Nick