linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier

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Message-ID: <20100110051943.GF9044@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:19:43 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, josh@...htriplett.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory
	barrier

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 18:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Then we should have O(tasks) for spinlocks taken, and 
> > > > O(min(tasks, CPUS)) for IPIs.
> > > 
> > > And for nr tasks >> CPUS, this may help too:
> > > 
> > > > cpumask = 0;
> > > > foreach task {
> > > 
> > > 	if (cpumask == online_cpus)
> > > 		break;
> > > 
> > > > 	spin_lock(task_rq(task)->rq->lock);
> > > > 	if (task_rq(task)->curr == task)
> > > > 		cpu_set(task_cpu(task), cpumask);
> > > > 	spin_unlock(task_rq(task)->rq->lock);
> > > > }
> > > > send_ipi(cpumask);
> > 
> > Good point, erring on the side of sending too many IPIs is safe.  One
> > might even be able to just send the full set if enough of the CPUs were
> > running the current process and none of the remainder were running
> > real-time threads.  And yes, it would then be necessary to throttle
> > calls to sys_membarrier().
> > 
> > Quickly hiding behind a suitable boulder...  ;-)
> 
> :)
> 
> One quick counter-argument against IPI-to-all: that will wake up all
> CPUs, including those which are asleep. Not really good for
> energy-saving.

Good point.

							Thanx, Paul
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