linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] exit: Make unlikely case in mm_update_next

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Date:   Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:36:14 -0500
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, oleg@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        mingo@...nel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, riel@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, marcos.souza.org@...il.com,
        hoeun.ryu@...il.com, pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, gs051095@...il.com,
        dhowells@...hat.com, rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] exit: Make unlikely case in mm_update_next_owner() more scalable

Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com> writes:

> On 01.06.2018 18:25, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri 01-06-18 09:32:42, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>>> Group leader exiting early without tearing down the whole thread
>>>>> group should be quite rare as well. No question that somebody might do
>>>>> that on purpose though...
>>>>
>>>> The group leader exiting early is a completely legitimate and reasonable
>>>> thing to do, even if it is rare.
>>>
>>> I am not saying it isn't legitimate. But the most common case is the
>>> main thread waiting for its threads or calling exit which would tear the
>>> whole group down. Is there any easy way to achieve this other than tkill
>>> to group leader? Calling exit(3) from the leader performs group exit
>>> IIRC.
>> 
>> pthread_exit from the group leader.
>> 
>>> I am not arguing this is non-issue. And it certainly is a problem once
>>> somebody wants to be nasty... I was more interested how often this
>>> really happens for sane workloads.
>> 
>> That is a fair question.  All I know for certain is that whatever Kirill
>> Tkhai's workload was it was triggering this the slow path.
>
> It was triggered on a server, where many VPS of many people are hosted.
> Sorry, I have no an idea what they did.

That at least tells us it was naturally occurring.  Which makes this a
real problem in the real world.

Eric