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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: Disable softIRQ when taking hugetlb_lock
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Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Currently, only free_huge_page() is known to be called from softIRQ
> context.

Called from a timer?

Perhaps just move that to a work queue instead.

That seems preferable than to increase softirq latency.

-Andi

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