linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs for "light" atomic readers to prevent CPU offline

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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:23:33 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs for "light" atomic
 readers to prevent CPU offline

Replaying what Tejun wrote:

Hello, Oleg.

> Replaying what Oleg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry I don't understand the context and I can't find this thread
> anywhere, so I am not sure I understand...
> 

Weird, lkml cc is missing.  Srivatsa?

[Now fixed. This thread has lkml CC]

>> Replaying what Tejun wrote:
>> So, we basically need percpu_rwlock.  We already have percpu_rwsem.
> 
> Yes, and with -mm patches it becomes reader-friendly. In particular
> see http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=135240650828875
> 
>> Oleg, it seems
>> CPU hotplug needs big-reader rwlock, ideas on how to proceed?
>>
> 
> I am going to convert get_online_cpus() to use percpu_down_read(),
> this looks simple.
> 
> We already discussed this with Paul, see
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135248463226031
> 
> and the whole thread.
> 
> In short, all we need is percpu_down_write_recursive_readers() and
> afaics the only complication is lockdep, we need down_read_no_lockdep()
> which (like __up_read) doesn't do rwsem_acquire_read().
> 

So, it's a different thing.  There are two mechanism protecting
against cpu hotplug - get_online_cpus() and preempt_disable().  The
former can be used by ones which can sleep and need to protect against
the whole up/down process (DOWN_PREPARE and so on).  The latter
protects the last step and can be used when the caller can't sleep.
Replacing get_online_cpus() w/ percpu_rwsem is great but this thread
is about replacing preempt_disable with something finer grained and
less heavy on the writer side - IOW, percpu_rwlock as opposed to
percpu_rwsem, so, I think the end result would be that CPU hotplug
will be protected by percpu_rwsem for the whole part and by
percpu_rwlock for the last commit stage.

The problem seems that we don't have percpu_rwlock yet.  It shouldn't
be too difficult to implement, right?

Thanks.

-- tejun 

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