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From: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: add cond_resched() to free_pud_range()
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:49:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818134934.92354-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev> (raw)

Packet receive timeouts were seen in production. Tracing showed that an
exiting process with a sparse 2.5 TiB mapping could remain in kernel
context for over 20 ms without reaching a scheduling point while
freeing PTE page-table pages. Hard IRQs could still be handled, but the
per-CPU ksoftirqd thread and other runnable tasks could not run during
that interval, delaying NET_RX softirq work queued to ksoftirqd.

Like zap_pud_range(), add cond_resched() to free_pud_range() so
ksoftirqd and other runnable tasks can run between PUD entries. Testing
with PREEMPT_NONE showed that the maximum interval between scheduling
points fell from over 20 ms to below 2 ms.

Reported-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 4134ac607ee0..68c15449de07 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static inline void free_pud_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, p4d_t *p4d,
 		if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
 			continue;
 		free_pmd_range(tlb, pud, addr, next, floor, ceiling);
-	} while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
+	} while (pud++, cond_resched(), addr = next, addr != end);
 
 	start &= P4D_MASK;
 	if (start < floor)
-- 
2.55.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-18 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-18 13:49 Leon Hwang [this message]
2026-08-18 14:08 ` [PATCH] mm: add cond_resched() to free_pud_range() Michal Hocko
2026-08-18 14:09 ` Mike Rapoport

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