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Message-ID: <20080317192615.GI17940@kernel.dk>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:26:15 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@...com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de, dgc@....com
Subject: Re: [Patch (block.git) 2/2] Ensure single IPI generation for SMP call single
On Mon, Mar 17 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
> index 7232e1c..f7ec401 100644
> --- a/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -23,28 +23,34 @@ void __cpuinit generic_init_call_single_data(void)
>
> void generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(void)
> {
> - struct call_single_queue *q;
> unsigned long flags;
> LIST_HEAD(list);
> + struct call_single_queue *q = &__get_cpu_var(call_single_queue);
>
> - q = &__get_cpu_var(call_single_queue);
> spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
> - list_replace_init(&q->list, &list);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> + while (!list_empty(&q->list)) {
> + list_replace_init(&q->list, &list);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
>
> - while (!list_empty(&list)) {
> - struct call_single_data *data;
> + do {
> + struct call_single_data *data;
>
> - data = list_entry(list.next, struct call_single_data, list);
> - list_del(&data->list);
> + data = list_entry(list.next, struct call_single_data,
> + list);
> + list_del(&data->list);
>
> - data->func(data->info);
> - if (data->flags & CSD_FLAG_WAIT) {
> - smp_wmb();
> - data->flags = 0;
> - } else if (data->flags & CSD_FLAG_ALLOC)
> - kfree(data);
> + data->func(data->info);
> + if (data->flags & CSD_FLAG_WAIT) {
> + smp_wmb();
> + data->flags = 0;
> + } else if (data->flags & CSD_FLAG_ALLOC)
> + kfree(data);
> + } while (!list_empty(&list));
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
> }
> + q->activated = 0;
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> }
I agree with doing it this way, re-checking and doing another run (or
more). However I think we can improve it a bit so we don't always have
to grab the dst lock at least twice - it should be safe enough to
include the lock only inside the first loop, doing an smp_mb() before
the list_empty() check and again at the bottom before looping around and
doing the list_empty() check again.
I've rolled a new patch series here:
http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=shortlog;h=io-cpu-affinity
(or just pull the io-cpu-affinity branch), it also includes a bunch of
other cleanups like porting the faster smp_call_function() to ia64 and
powerpc as well. So the kernel/smp.c generic helpers have grown a bit,
while the arch bits are smaller.
I'm curious if it now boots on ia64, since I killed the hack to manually
call the __init manually there. If you could check, I would appreciate
it ;-)
I've built all 4 supported archs and they compile and link fine, but
nothing has been booted yet.
--
Jens Axboe
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