linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue

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Message-Id: <20100601185700.32ed2a0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:57:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:02:40 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> > Another possibility might be to change lru_add_drain_all() to use IPI
> > interrupts rather than schedule_on_each_cpu(). __That would greatly
> > speed up lru_add_drain_all(). __I don't recall why we did it that way
> > and I don't immediately see a reason not to. __A few things in core mm
> > would need to be changed from spin_lock_irq() to spin_lock_irqsave().
> >
> > But I do have vague memories that there was a reason for it.
> >
> > <It's a huge PITA locating the commit which initially added
> > lru_add_drain_all()>
> >
> > <ten minutes later>
> >
> > : tree 05d7615894131a368fc4943f641b11acdd2ae694
> > : parent e236a166b2bc437769a9b8b5d19186a3761bde48
> > : author Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:42:27 -0800
> > : committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...osdl.org> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:20:17 -0800
> > :
> > : [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
> > :
> > : Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
> > : properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
> > : reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
> > : it.
> > :
> > : Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
> > : refcount.
> > :
> > : Other small cleanups while we're here.
> >
> > It didn't tell us.
> >
> > <looks in the linux-mm archives>
> >
> > Nope, no rationale is provided there either.
> 
> Maybe this thread?
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/23/226

Close.  There's some talk there of using smp_call_function() (actually
on_each_cpu()) within lru_add_drain_all(), but nobody seems to have
tried it.

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