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Commit da291320 authored by Michel Dänzer's avatar Michel Dänzer Committed by Alex Deucher
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drm/ttm: Use GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT for allocating huge pages



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: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
parent bd4caed4
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