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Michel Dänzer authored
GFP_TRANSHUGE tries very hard to allocate huge pages, which can result in long delays with high memory pressure. I have observed firefox freezing for up to around a minute due to this while restic was taking a full system backup. Since we don't really need huge pages, use GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY instead, in order to fail quickly when there are no huge pages available. Set __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as well, in order for huge pages to be freed up in the background if necessary. With these changes, I'm no longer seeing freezes during a restic backup. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by:
Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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