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Message-ID: <20190814025349.GM28441@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:53:49 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
Byungchul Park <max.byungchul.park@...il.com>,
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Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
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Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 1/2] rcu/tree: Add basic support for kfree_rcu
batching
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 09:11:03AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:41:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:29:54PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 09:12:34AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 07:10:52PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > > Maybe. Note well that I said "potential issue". When I checked a few
> > > > > > years ago, none of the uses of rcu_barrier() cared about kfree_rcu().
> > > > > > They cared instead about call_rcu() callbacks that accessed code or data
> > > > > > that was going to disappear soon, for example, due to module unload or
> > > > > > filesystem unmount.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So it -might- be that rcu_barrier() can stay as it is, but with changes
> > > > > > as needed to documentation.
> > > >
> > > > Right, we should update the docs. Byungchul, do you mind sending a patch that
> > > > documents the rcu_barrier() behavior?
> > >
> > > Are you trying to give me the chance? I feel thankful. It doens't matter
> > > to try it at the moment though, I can't follow-up until September. I'd
> > > better do that in Septamber or give it up this time.
> >
> > Which reminds me... I recall your asking if the kfree_rcu() patch
> > might be sensitive to the exact hardware, but I cannot locate that
> > email right off-hand. This is an excellent question! When faced with
> > floods of kfree_rcu() calls, I would expect some hardware, compiler,
> > and kernel-configuration sensitivity. Which is why it will likely be
>
> Yes.
>
> > necessary to do a few more improvements over time -- for but one example,
> > accumulating callbacks into vectors in order to reduce the number of
> > kfree()-time cache misses.
>
> Yes. That would be a pretty good way to mitigate the problem. I hope
> the simple way we've done works well enough so it would never happen
> though.
>
> Or I would check the condition of all system resourses e.g. CPU and
> memory and control the bandwith of them, of course only if that actually
> happens.
>
> Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion on it!
Didn't you say earlier that you were getting OOM on your system even
with the patches? Or did I miss the resolution of that issue?
Thanx, Paul
> Thanks,
> Byungchul
>
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Byungchul
> > >
> > > > > > It also -might- be, maybe now or maybe some time in the future, that
> > > > > > there will need to be a kfree_rcu_barrier() or some such. But if so,
> > > > > > let's not create it until it is needed. For one thing, it is reasonably
> > > > > > likely that something other than a kfree_rcu_barrier() would really
> > > > > > be what was needed. After all, the main point would be to make sure
> > > > > > that the old memory really was freed before allocating new memory.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now I fully understand what you meant thanks to you. Thank you for
> > > > > explaining it in detail.
> > > > >
> > > > > > But if the system had ample memory, why wait? In that case you don't
> > > > > > really need to wait for all the old memory to be freed, but rather for
> > > > > > sufficient memory to be available for allocation.
> > > > >
> > > > > Agree. Totally make sense.
> > > >
> > > > Agreed, all makes sense.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > - Joel
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > >
>
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