RE: [PATCH 1/2] sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Tue Aug 22 2017 - 15:55:46 EST



> So I propose testing the attached trivial patch.

It doesnât work.
The call stack is the same.

100.00% (ffffffff821af140)
|
---wait_on_page_bit
__migration_entry_wait
migration_entry_wait
do_swap_page
__handle_mm_fault
handle_mm_fault
__do_page_fault
do_page_fault
page_fault
|
|--40.62%--0x123a2
| start_thread
|


> It may not do anything at all.
> But the existing code is actually doing extra work just to be fragile, in case the
> scenario above can happen.
>
> Comments?
>
> Linus