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thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:28 +0000 (10:41 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:49:52 +0000 (14:49 +1100)
commit1bd21eefd763baf459f251d7ccf79d4db0bce859
tree6dd7dc0a8e5e181da5f9582e94809f9b4fedd4d5
parent34217015e74b0030336c081b457dc0313f8ae60b
thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency

Use wait_event_freezable_timeout() instead of
schedule_timeout_interruptible() to avoid missing freezer wakeups.  A
try_to_freeze() would have been needed in the khugepaged_alloc_hugepage
tight loop too in case of the allocation failing repeatedly, and
wait_event_freezable_timeout will provide it too.

khugepaged would still freeze just fine by trying again the next minute
but it's better if it freezes immediately.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c