linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/vmstat.c: erase latency in vmstat

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:55:26 +0800
From:   Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>,
        Bin Lai <robinlai@...cent.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmstat.c: erase latency in vmstat_shepherd

From: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>

Many 100us+ latencies have been deteceted in vmstat_shepherd()
on CPX platform which has 208 logic cpus. And vmstat_shepherd is
queued every second, which could make the case worse.

Add schedule point in vmstat_shepherd() to erase the latency.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>
Reported-by: Bin Lai <robinlai@...cent.com>
---
 mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index f8942160fc95..b538199883b5 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1953,6 +1953,8 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
 
 		if (!delayed_work_pending(dw) && need_update(cpu))
 			queue_delayed_work_on(cpu, mm_percpu_wq, dw, 0);
+
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	put_online_cpus();
 
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