linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: async worker destruction and pool-binding synchronization

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 5 May 2014 11:05:14 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: async worker destruction and
 pool-binding synchronization

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:08:55PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> Patch1-4: async worker destruction
> 
> The old version(https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/17/418) code of async worker
> destruction has to dance with pool->lock and worker_idr, it is complicated.
> 
> But worker_idr in the new version dosn't requies pool->lock, and the code in
> put_unbound_pool() which waits workers exit is changed to wait on a
> wait_queue_head_t. These two changes make the new async worker destruction
> much simpler.
> 
> Patch2 reduces the review burden. It will be easier to review the whole
> patchset if we know destroy_worker() is forced to destroy idle workers only.
> 
> ==========
> Patch5-10: pool-binding synchronization and simplify the workers management
> 
> The code which binds a worker to the pool and unbind a worker from the pool
> is unfolded in create_worker()/destroy_worker().
> The patchset moves this pool-binding code out and wraps them.
> 
> patch3-4 moves the pool-unbinding code out from destroy_worker(), and make
> manger_mutex only protects the pool-unbinding code only rather than
> protects the whole worker-destruction path.
> 
> patch5-7 makes manger_mutex only protects the pool-binding code rather than the
> whole worker-creation path.
> 
> patch8: rename manger_mutex to bind_mutex
> patch9-10: moves the pool-binding code out from create_worker() and use it for
> rescuer.

Sorry about the late review.  I've been pretty sick last week.
Overall, excellent work.  We'll prolly go through a couple more
iterations but I really like what's going on.

Thanks a lot!

-- 
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/