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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: thp: update split_queue_len correctly
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:47 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
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> The deferred THPs are split on memory pressure through shrinker
> callback and splitting of THP during reclaim can fail for several
> reasons like unable to lock the THP, under writeback or unexpected
> number of pins on the THP. Such pages are put back on the deferred split
> list for consideration later. However kernel does not update the
> deferred queue size on putting back the pages whose split was failed.
> This patch fixes that.

I forgot to add the user visible impact.

"Without this patch the split_queue_len can underflow. Shrinker will
always get that there are some THPs to split even if there are not and
waste some cpu to scan the empty list."

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