linux-kernel - Re: Severe performance regression w/ 4.4+ on Android due to cgroup locking changes

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Message-ID: <20160714145844.GA7760@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:58:44 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@...gle.com>,
	Rom Lemarchand <romlem@...gle.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Severe performance regression w/ 4.4+ on Android due to cgroup
	locking changes

On 07/14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> OK, not too horrible if I say so myself :-)
>
> The below is a compile tested only first draft so far. I'll go give it
> some runtime next.

Yes, thanks.

But note that we do not need RCU_NONE. All we need is the trivial change
below. Damn, I am trying to find my old rcu-sync patches which I didn't
send, but can't... OK, this almost off-topic right now, just this "enter"
is ugly and we can't switch the slow/fast modes dynamically.

The rest of you patch is "optimize the slow path" and we already discussed
it before, I personally like it. Perhaps you can redo it without RCU_NONE
part?

Of course, this leads to another question: do we really need rcu-sync at
all, or should we change percpu-rwsem to always work in the "slow" mode
which is not that slow with your change... I'd like to keep it ;)

What do you think?

Oleg.

--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -5605,6 +5605,8 @@ int __init cgroup_init(void)
 	BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_dfl_base_files));
 	BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_legacy_base_files));

+	rcu_sync_enter(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.rss);
+
 	get_user_ns(init_cgroup_ns.user_ns);

 	mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);