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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:38:17 +0200
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
CC: device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, pedrib@...il.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <msnitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3
On 10/10/2010 01:59 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3
>
> [Due to popular demand this is a port of the dm-crypt scalability
> patch to 2.6.36-rc7. The 2.6.35 and .32 patches were widely used by
> lots of users with good results.
>
Hi Andi,
please can you check split patches in
http://mbroz.fedorapeople.org/dm-crypt/2.6.36-devel/
is there some change in your new version?
Can I send this to dm-devel instead?
(It is better for review.)
I know that I fixed some small bug there and these are heavily
tested by me.
Alasdair, _please_ can you include it in dm-tree?
I asked you at least 5 times already, my last info is that
you are planning this for 2.6.37, right?
> static void kcryptd_queue_io(struct dm_crypt_io *io)
> {
> - struct crypt_config *cc = io->target->private;
> + int cpu;
> +
> + /*
> + * Since we only have a single worker per CPU in extreme
> + * cases there might be nesting (dm-crypt on another dm-crypt)
> + * To avoid deadlock run the work directly then.
> + */
> + cpu = get_cpu();
> + if (per_cpu(io_wq_cpu, cpu) == current && !in_interrupt()) {
> + put_cpu();
> + kcryptd_io(&io->work);
> + return;
> + }
This is only place where I see problem - if running in crypto async mode,
callback is called in interrupt mode (please correct me if I am wrong).
So with async crypto and nested dm-crypt mapping this deadlock
prevention doesn't work - so is there still possibility of deadlock?
(I think we can ignore it for now, I tried create some "real world" deadlocky
mappings some time ago and was not able to catch it even on high memory pressure.)
Milan
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