linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] sched: Reduce ttwu rq->lock contention

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Message-ID: <20101217192814.GA16133@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:28:14 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] sched: Reduce ttwu rq->lock contention

On 12/17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> By fully serializing all wakeups using ->pi_lock it becomes a lot
> simpler

Hmm, yes. Contrary to my expectations ;)

> static int
> try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
> {
>         unsigned long flags;
>         int cpu, ret = 0;
>
>         smp_wmb();
>         raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
>
>         if (!(p->state & state))
>                 goto unlock;
>
>         ret = 1; /* we qualify as a proper wakeup now */
>
>         if (p->se.on_rq && ttwu_force(p, state, wake_flags))
>                 goto unlock;

Well. All I can say, I'll try to re-read this code with the fresh head ;)
We should ensure that on_rq == 0 can not be racy.

>         p->state = TASK_WAKING;
>         smp_wmb();
>         raw_spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(p)->lock);

This needs smp_mb(), unlock_wait() reads the memory.

Oleg.

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