linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hotplug: Optimize {get,put}_online

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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:50:59 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug: Optimize {get,put}_online_cpus()

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:13:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:54:46 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

[ . . . ]

> ?? I'm not sure I understand this. The online_cpus_held++ was there for
> recursion. Can't get_online_cpus() nest? I was thinking it can. If so,
> once the "__cpuhp_writer" is set, we need to do __put_online_cpus() as
> many times as we did a __get_online_cpus(). I don't know where the
> O(nr_tasks) comes from. The ref here was just to account for doing the
> old "get_online_cpus" instead of a srcu_read_lock().
> 
> > 
> > > static inline void put_online_cpus(void)
> > > {
> > > 	if (unlikely(current->online_cpus_held)) {
> > > 		current->online_cpus_held--;
> > > 		__put_online_cpus();
> > > 		return;
> > > 	}
> > > 
> > > 	srcu_read_unlock(&cpuhp_srcu);
> > > }
> > 
> > Also, you might not have noticed but, srcu_read_{,un}lock() have an
> > extra idx thing to pass about. That doesn't fit with the hotplug api.
> 
> I'll have to look a that, as I'm not exactly sure about the idx thing.

Not a problem, just stuff the idx into some per-task thing.  Either
task_struct or taskinfo will work fine.

> > > 
> > > Then have the writer simply do:
> > > 
> > > 	__cpuhp_write = current;
> > > 	synchronize_srcu(&cpuhp_srcu);
> > > 
> > > 	<grab the mutex here>
> > 
> > How does that do reader preference?
> 
> Well, the point I was trying to do was to let readers go very fast
> (well, with a mb instead of a mutex), and then when the CPU hotplug
> happens, it goes back to the current method.
> 
> That is, once we set __cpuhp_write, and then run synchronize_srcu(),
> the system will be in a state that does what it does today (grabbing
> mutexes, and upping refcounts).
> 
> I thought the whole point was to speed up the get_online_cpus() when no
> hotplug is happening. This does that, and is rather simple. It only
> gets slow when hotplug is in effect.

Or to put it another way, if the underlying slow-path mutex is
reader-preference, then the whole thing will be reader-preference.

							Thanx, Paul

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