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

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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:02:21 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	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>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug: Optimize {get,put}_online_cpus()

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:24:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> +void __get_online_cpus(void)
> +{
> +	if (__cpuhp_writer == 1) {
take_ref:
> +		/* See __srcu_read_lock() */
> +		__this_cpu_inc(__cpuhp_refcount);
> +		smp_mb();
> +		__this_cpu_inc(cpuhp_seq);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	atomic_inc(&cpuhp_waitcount);
> +
>  	/*
> +	 * We either call schedule() in the wait, or we'll fall through
> +	 * and reschedule on the preempt_enable() in get_online_cpus().
>  	 */
> +	preempt_enable_no_resched();
> +	wait_event(cpuhp_readers, !__cpuhp_writer);
> +	preempt_disable();
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * XXX list_empty_careful(&cpuhp_readers.task_list) ?
> +	 */
> +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cpuhp_waitcount))
> +		wake_up_all(&cpuhp_writer);
	goto take_ref;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__get_online_cpus);

It would probably be a good idea to increment __cpuhp_refcount after the
wait_event.
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