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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swap: piggyback lru_add_drain_all() calls
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 05:10:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191004121017.GG32665@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157018386639.6110.3058050375244904201.stgit@buzz>

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:11:06PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This is very slow operation. There is no reason to do it again if somebody
> else already drained all per-cpu vectors after we waited for lock.
> +	seq = raw_read_seqcount_latch(&seqcount);
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&lock);
> +
> +	/* Piggyback on drain done by somebody else. */
> +	if (__read_seqcount_retry(&seqcount, seq))
> +		goto done;
> +
> +	raw_write_seqcount_latch(&seqcount);
> +

Do we really need the seqcount to do this?  Wouldn't a mutex_trylock()
have the same effect?


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-04 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-04 10:11 Konstantin Khlebnikov
2019-10-04 12:10 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-10-04 12:24   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2019-10-04 12:27   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-04 12:32     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2019-10-04 12:37       ` Michal Hocko

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