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Commit 96e2db45 authored by Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)'s avatar Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/vmalloc: rework the drain logic

A current "lazy drain" model suffers from at least two issues.

First one is related to the unsorted list of vmap areas, thus in order to
identify the [min:max] range of areas to be drained, it requires a full
list scan.  What is a time consuming if the list is too long.

Second one and as a next step is about merging all fragments with a free
space.  What is also a time consuming because it has to iterate over
entire list which holds outstanding lazy areas.

See below the "preemptirqsoff" tracer that illustrates a high latency.  It
is ~24676us.  Our workloads like audio and video are effected by such long
latency:

<snip>
  tracer: preemptirqsoff

  preemptirqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 4.9.186-perf+
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  latency: 24676 us, #4/4, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 P:8)
     -----------------
     | task: crtc_commit:112-261 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:16)
     -----------------
   => started a...
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