linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/sort.c: Add _nonatomic() variants with cond

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Message-Id: <20250327110923.41e281e75fcf5b1152a55a64@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:09:23 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
Cc: linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kuan-Wei
 Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/sort.c: Add _nonatomic() variants with
 cond_resched()

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:26:06 -0400 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:

> bcachefs calls sort() during recovery to sort all keys it found in the
> journal, and this may be very large - gigabytes on large machines.
> 
> This has been causing "task blocked" warnings, so needs a
> cond_resched().

I assume this has been happening for a while, so a cc:stable is appropriate?