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When doing our global park, we like to be a good citizen and shrink our slab caches (of which we have quite a few now), but each kmem_cache_shrink() incurs a stop_machine() and so ends up being quite expensive, causing machine-wide stalls. While ideally we would like to throw away unused pages in our slab caches whenever it appears that we are idling, doing so will require a much cheaper mechanism. In the meantime use a delayed worked to impose a rate-limit that means we have to have been idle for more than 2 seconds before we start shrinking. References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/848 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191218094057.3510459-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.