Re: mm: pages are not freed from lru_add_pvecs after process termination

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed May 04 2016 - 16:17:50 EST


On 05/04/2016 12:41 PM, Odzioba, Lukasz wrote:
> Do you see any advantages of dropping THP from pagevecs over this solution?

It's a more foolproof solution. Even with this patch, there might still
be some corner cases where the draining doesn't occur. That "two
minutes" might be come 20 or 200 under some circumstances.