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Message-ID: <20160714185605.GL30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:56:05 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org,
paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, john.stultz@...aro.org,
dimitrysh@...gle.com, romlem@...gle.com, ccross@...gle.com,
tkjos@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Introduce bias knob
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 08:43:51PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > The current percpu-rwsem read side is entirely free of serializing
> > instructions at the cost of having a synchronize_sched() in the write
> > path.
> >
> > The latency of the synchronize_sched() is too high for some users
> > (cgroups), so provide a __percpu_init_rwsem(.bias) argument to forgot
> > this synchronize_sched() at the cost of forcing all readers into the
> > slow path, which has serializing instructions.
>
> Oh well... I personally do not think this is what we want... Can't
> we just add the stupid rcu_sync_enter() into cgroup_init() at least
> for now?
> Yes, this means the unnecessary .sync() at boot time, but
> it will go away after cleanups I am going to send.
Those would have to hit the same merge window though; some people (like
Arjan) really care about boot times and hunt and kill people adding
pointless delays..
> Because, again, we will probably want to change this bias dynamically.
Hmm, how so?
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