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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