From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx188.postini.com [74.125.245.188]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28B7B6B004F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:28:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4F17C6B7.5020606@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:03 +0800 From: Li Zefan MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: restore ss->id_lock to spinlock, using RCU for next References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , Manfred Spraul , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Johannes Weiner , Ying Han , Greg Thelen , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hugh Dickins wrote: > Commit c1e2ee2dc436 "memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock" has > now been seen to cause the unfair behavior we should have expected > from converting a spinlock to an rwlock: softlockup in cgroup_mkdir(), > whose get_new_cssid() is waiting for the wlock, while there are 19 > tasks using the rlock in css_get_next() to get on with their memcg > workload (in an artificial test, admittedly). Yet lib/idr.c was > made suitable for RCU way back. > > 1. Revert that commit, restoring ss->id_lock to a spinlock. > > 2. Make one small adjustment to idr_get_next(): take the height from > the top layer (stable under RCU) instead of from the root (unprotected > by RCU), as idr_find() does. > > 3. Remove lock and unlock around css_get_next()'s call to idr_get_next(): > memcg iterators (only users of css_get_next) already did rcu_read_lock(), > and comment demands that, but add a WARN_ON_ONCE to make sure of it. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Li Zefan > --- > > include/linux/cgroup.h | 2 +- > kernel/cgroup.c | 19 +++++++++---------- > lib/idr.c | 4 ++-- > 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org