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Message-ID: <4C030CB8.505@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 May 2010 09:11:20 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost: apply cpumask and cgroup to vhost pollers

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Apply the cpumask and cgroup of the initializing task to the created
> vhost poller.
> 
> Based on Sridhar Samudrala's patch.
> 
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: work/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work.orig/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ work/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>  #include <linux/highmem.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/kthread.h>
> +#include <linux/cgroup.h>
> 
>  #include <linux/net.h>
>  #include <linux/if_packet.h>
> @@ -176,12 +177,30 @@ repeat:
>  long vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
>  		    struct vhost_virtqueue *vqs, int nvqs)
>  {
> -	struct task_struct *poller;
> -	int i;
> +	struct task_struct *poller = NULL;
> +	cpumask_var_t mask;
> +	int i, ret = -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL))
> +		goto out;
> 

If we "goto out", we will end up calling kthread_stop(poller), but
seems kthread_stop() requires the task_struct pointer != NULL.

>  	poller = kthread_create(vhost_poller, dev, "vhost-%d", current->pid);
> -	if (IS_ERR(poller))
> -		return PTR_ERR(poller);
> +	if (IS_ERR(poller)) {
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(poller);
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = sched_getaffinity(current->pid, mask);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	ret = sched_setaffinity(poller->pid, mask);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	ret = cgroup_attach_task_current_cg(poller);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> 
>  	dev->vqs = vqs;
>  	dev->nvqs = nvqs;
> @@ -202,7 +221,14 @@ long vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *de
>  			vhost_poll_init(&dev->vqs[i].poll,
>  					dev->vqs[i].handle_kick, POLLIN, dev);
>  	}
> -	return 0;
> +
> +	wake_up_process(poller);	/* avoid contributing to loadavg */
> +	ret = 0;
> +out:
> +	if (ret)
> +		kthread_stop(poller);
> +	free_cpumask_var(mask);
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  /* Caller should have device mutex */
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