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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Sun, Jiebin" <jiebin.sun@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	vasily.averin@linux.dev, shakeelb@google.com, dennis@kernel.org,
	tj@kernel.org, cl@linux.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	legion@kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com,
	alexander.mikhalitsyn@virtuozzo.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.c.chen@intel.com,
	feng.tang@intel.com, ying.huang@intel.com, tianyou.li@intel.com,
	wangyang.guo@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 08:38:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220908083859.24c989f08d62ddbd031005de@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8e771c8-4b01-f2b4-5b54-e9931f556270@intel.com>

On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:25:47 +0800 "Sun, Jiebin" <jiebin.sun@intel.com> wrote:

> In our case, if the local 
> percpu counter is near to INT_MAX and there comes a big msgsz, the 
> overflow issue could happen.

percpu_counter_add_batch() handles this - your big message
won't overflow an s64.


Lookng at percpu_counter_add_batch(), is this tweak right?

- don't need to update *fbc->counters inside the lock
- that __this_cpu_sub() is an obscure way of zeroing the thing

--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c~a
+++ a/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ void percpu_counter_add_batch(struct per
 		unsigned long flags;
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&fbc->lock, flags);
 		fbc->count += count;
-		__this_cpu_sub(*fbc->counters, count - amount);
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbc->lock, flags);
+		__this_cpu_write(*fbc->counters, 0);
 	} else {
 		this_cpu_add(*fbc->counters, amount);
 	}
_



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-02 15:22 [PATCH] ipc/msg.c: " Jiebin Sun
2022-09-02 16:06 ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-05 11:54   ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-02 16:27 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-09-05 12:02   ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-06 18:44   ` Tim Chen
2022-09-07  9:39     ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-07 20:43       ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-07 17:25   ` [PATCH v4] ipc/msg: " Jiebin Sun
2022-09-07 16:01     ` Tim Chen
2022-09-07 21:34       ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-07 22:10         ` Tim Chen
2022-09-08  8:25         ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-08 15:38           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-09-08 16:15             ` Dennis Zhou
2022-09-03 19:35 ` [PATCH] ipc/msg.c: " Manfred Spraul
2022-09-05 12:12   ` Sun, Jiebin
     [not found] ` <20220905193516.846647-1-jiebin.sun@intel.com>
     [not found]   ` <20220905193516.846647-3-jiebin.sun@intel.com>
2022-09-05 19:31     ` [PATCH v2 1/2] percpu: Add percpu_counter_add_local Shakeel Butt
2022-09-06  8:41       ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-05 19:35   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter Jiebin Sun
2022-09-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention in ipc/msg Jiebin Sun
2022-09-06 16:54   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter Jiebin Sun
2022-09-09 20:36 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention in ipc/msg Jiebin Sun
2022-09-09 20:36   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] percpu: Add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local Jiebin Sun
2022-09-09 16:37     ` Tim Chen
2022-09-10  1:37     ` kernel test robot
2022-09-10  8:15     ` kernel test robot
2022-09-10  8:26     ` kernel test robot
2022-09-09 20:36   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter Jiebin Sun
2022-09-09 16:11     ` Tim Chen
2022-09-13 19:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention in ipc/msg Jiebin Sun
2022-09-13 19:25   ` [PATCH v6 1/2] percpu: Add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local Jiebin Sun
2022-09-18 11:08     ` Manfred Spraul
2022-09-20  6:01       ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-13 19:25   ` [PATCH v6 2/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter Jiebin Sun
2022-09-18 12:53     ` Manfred Spraul
2022-09-20  2:36       ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-20  4:53         ` Manfred Spraul
2022-09-20  5:50           ` Sun, Jiebin
2022-09-20 15:08           ` [PATCH] ipc/msg: avoid negative value by overflow in msginfo Jiebin Sun

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