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authorTejun Heo <[email protected]>2012-01-10 15:08:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2012-01-10 16:30:45 -0800
commit1ebb7044c9142c67d1d2b04d84010b4810a43fd8 (patch)
treebfacd21f2aabf0b727d678797e2764d010918f29 /tools/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace
parent0565d317768cc66b13e37184f29d9f270c2886dc (diff)
mempool: fix first round failure behavior
mempool modifies gfp_mask so that the backing allocator doesn't try too hard or trigger warning message when there's pool to fall back on. In addition, for the first try, it removes __GFP_WAIT and IO, so that it doesn't trigger reclaim or wait when allocation can be fulfilled from pool; however, when that allocation fails and pool is empty too, it waits for the pool to be replenished before retrying. Allocation which could have succeeded after a bit of reclaim has to wait on the reserved items and it's not like mempool doesn't retry with __GFP_WAIT and IO. It just does that *after* someone returns an element, pointlessly delaying things. Fix it by retrying immediately if the first round of allocation attempts w/o __GFP_WAIT and IO fails. [[email protected]: shorten the lock hold time] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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