From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: releasing result pages in svc_xprt_release()
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 16:13:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210205211351.GC32030@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9FC8FB98-2DD7-4B78-BD72-918F91FA11D9@oracle.com>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:20:28PM +0000, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Baby steps.
>
> Because I'm perverse I started with bulk page freeing. In the course
> of trying to invent a new API, I discovered there already is a batch
> free_page() function called release_pages().
>
> It seems to work as advertised for pages that are truly no longer
> in use (ie RPC/RDMA pages) but not for pages that are still in flight
> but released (ie TCP pages).
>
> release_pages() chains the pages in the passed-in array onto a list
> by their page->lru fields. This seems to be a problem if a page
> is still in use.
I thought I remembered reading an lwn article about bulk page
allocation. Looking around now all I can see is
https://lwn.net/Articles/684616/
https://lwn.net/Articles/711075/
and I can't tell if any of that work was ever finished.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-29 16:19 releasing result pages in svc_xprt_release() Chuck Lever
2021-01-29 22:43 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-29 23:06 ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-31 23:45 ` NeilBrown
2021-02-01 0:19 ` Chuck Lever
2021-02-01 23:27 ` NeilBrown
2021-02-05 20:20 ` Chuck Lever
2021-02-05 21:13 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2021-02-06 17:59 ` Chuck Lever
2021-02-07 23:59 ` NeilBrown
2021-02-07 23:42 ` NeilBrown
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