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Steven writes: "Vaibhav Nagarnaik found that modifying the ring buffer size could cause a huge latency in the system because it does a while loop to free pages without releasing the CPU (on non preempt kernels). In a case where there are hundreds of thousands of pages to free it could actually cause a system stall. A properly place cond_resched() solves this issue."