Calls like later() and with_gate() may allocate memory, although that is not
very common. This can create a problem in the sense that it will potentially
recurse and bring us back to the allocator during free - which is the very thing
we are trying to avoid with the call to later().
This patch wraps the relevant calls in the reclaimer lock. This do mean that the
allocation may fail if we are under severe pressure - which includes having
exhausted all reserved space - but at least we won't recurse back to the
allocator.
To make sure we do this as early as possible, we just fold both release_requests
and do_release_requests into a single function
Thanks Tomek for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <980245ccc17960cf4fcbbfedb29d1878a98d85d8.1470254846.git.glauber@scylladb.com>
(cherry picked from commit fe6a0d97d1)
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