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During testing, it was observed that amount of memory consumed due kfree_rcu() batching is 300-400MB. Previously we had only a single head_free pointer pointing to the list of rcu_head(s) that are to be freed after a grace period. Until this list is drained, we cannot queue any more objects on it since such objects may not be ready to be reclaimed when the worker thread eventually gets to drainin g the head_free list. We can do better by maintaining multiple lists as done by this patch. Testing shows that memory consumption came down by around 100-150MB with just adding another list. Adding more than 1 additional list did not show any improvement. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ paulmck: Code style and initialization handling. ] [ paulmck: Fix field name, reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.