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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: Disable softIRQ when taking hugetlb_lock
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>Instead, just use a workqueue and do the free_huge_page() in regular
>task context.

Hmm so this is done unconditionally, perhaps we want to do this _only_
under irq just to avoid any workqueue overhead in the common case?


if (unlikely(in_interrupt()) {
workqueue free_huge_page
} else {
normal free_huge_page
}

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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