vmscan: memcg: sleep when flushing stats during reclaim

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Memory reclaim is a sleepable context.  Flushing is an expensive operaiton
that scales with the number of cpus and the number of cgroups in the
system, so avoid doing it atomically unnecessarily.  This can slow down
reclaim code if flushing stats is taking too long, but there is already
multiple cond_resched()'s in reclaim code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-8-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Yosry Ahmed 2023-03-30 19:18:00 +00:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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