Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/vmalloc: Move draining areas out of caller context

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 20 2022 - 04:12:36 EST


On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 03:35:38PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> +static void drain_vmap_area(struct work_struct *work)

Nit, but I prefer to have a _work postix for workers just to keep
it easy to ready.

> /* After this point, we may free va at any time */
> if (unlikely(nr_lazy > lazy_max_pages()))
> - try_purge_vmap_area_lazy();
> + if (!atomic_xchg(&drain_vmap_area_work_in_progress, 1))
> + schedule_work(&drain_vmap_area_work);

Work items are defined to be single threaded, so I don't think we need
the drain_vmap_area_work_in_progress hack.

>
> /*
> --
> 2.30.2
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