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This is a very slow operation. Right now POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED is the top user because it has to freeze page references when removing it from the cache. invalidate_bdev() calls it for the same reason. Both are triggered from userspace, so it's easy to generate a storm. mlock/mlockall no longer calls lru_add_drain_all - I've seen here serious slowdown on older kernels. There are some less obvious paths in memory migration/CMA/offlining which shouldn't call frequently. The worst case requires a non-trivial workload because lru_add_drain_all() skips cpus where vectors are empty. Something must constantly generate a flow of pages for each cpu. Also cpus must be busy to make scheduling per-cpu works slower. And the machine must be big enough (64+ cpus in our case). In our case that was a massive series of mlock calls in map-reduce while other tasks write logs (and generates flows of new pages in per-cpu vectors). Mlock calls were serialized by mutex and accumulated latency up to 10 seconds or more. The kernel does not call lru_add_drain_all on mlock paths since 4.15, but the same scenario could be triggered by fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) or any other remaining user. There is no reason to do the drain again if somebody else already drained all the per-cpu vectors while we waited for the lock. Piggyback on a drain starting and finishing while we wait for the lock: all pages pending at the time of our entry were drained from the vectors. Callers like POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED retry their operations once after draining per-cpu vectors when pages have unexpected references. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157019456205.3142.3369423180908482020.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.