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Andrew Morton authored
This is the first in a little batch of patches which address long-held locks in the VFS/MM layer which are affecting our worst-case scheduling latency, and are making CONFIG_PREEMPT not very useful. We end up with a worst-case of 500 microseconds at 500MHz, which is very good. Unless you do an exit with lots of mmapped memory. unmap_page_range() needs work. Some of these patches also add rescheduling points for non-preemptible kernels - where I felt that the code path could be long enough to be perceptible. Three places in the generic pagecache functions need manual rescheduling points even for non-preemptible kernels: - generic_file_read() (Can hold the CPU for seconds) - generic_file_write() (ditto) - filemap_fdatawait(). This won't hold the CPU for so long, but it can walk many thousands of pages under the lock. It needs a lock drop and scheduling point for both preemptible and non-preemptible kernels. (This one's a bit ugly...)
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