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Message-ID: <4DA50430.8020701@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:02:24 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: query: [PATCH 2/2] cgroup: Remove call to synchronize_rcu in
 cgroup_attach_task

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Wrt these patches:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/24/14 [PATCH 1/2] cgroup: Set CGRP_RELEASABLE when adding to a cgroup
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/24/15 [PATCH 2/2] cgroup: Remove call to synchronize_rcu in cgroup_attach_task
> 
> I received a query regarding 2/2 because a large database company is
> apparently moving tasks between cgroups frequently enough that their
> database initialization time dropped from ~11 hours to ~4 hours when
> they applied this patch.
> 
> Curious why these got no traction.

I thought Paul was following the this. I'll spend some time on patch
review.

> 
> Regardless of the wisdom of frequent cgroup moves, Joe User launching
> light tasks via cgexec would gain quite a bit as well it seems.
> 
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