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mm/vmalloc: move resched point into alloc_vmap_area()
authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:59:06 +0000 (20:59 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:14:16 +0000 (14:14 -0700)
commit7ef5268a907534c4e6373b0d3fe45e0b3d95bfe2
treeaafee40aec9cf1b3c14e32f3098629b349179ae8
parent1b00ab48892fe6115618e2c81f9c1891ad0c0a5a
mm/vmalloc: move resched point into alloc_vmap_area()

Currently vm_area_alloc_pages() contains two cond_resched() points.
However, the page allocator already has its own in slow path so an extra
resched is not optimal because it delays the loops.

The place where CPU time can be consumed is in the VA-space search in
alloc_vmap_area(), especially if the space is really fragmented using
synthetic stress tests, after a fast path falls back to a slow one.

Move a single cond_resched() there, after dropping free_vmap_area_lock in
a slow path.  This keeps fairness where it matters while removing
redundant yields from the page-allocation path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment grammar]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917185906.1595454-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c