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thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:03:00 +0000 (15:03 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:31 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit3dccbd158ae491717c2ef75ef51179561903f5aa
tree300e991c7ff6d74d999169e396e97552d89624e5
parent6406decb3b68ed1d74d6098988a717103b5444a5
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