From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EB06B00EE for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove unneeded preempt_disable In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:53 +0200." <20110818144153.GA19920@redhat.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1313650253-21794-1-git-send-email-gthelen@google.com> <20110818093800.GA2268@redhat.com> <96939.1313677618@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20110818144153.GA19920@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1313692071_2611P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:27:51 -0400 Message-ID: <8365.1313692071@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Greg Thelen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Balbir Singh , Daisuke Nishimura --==_Exmh_1313692071_2611P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:53 +0200, Johannes Weiner said: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:26:58AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:38:00 +0200, Johannes Weiner said: > > > > > Note that on non-x86, these operations themselves actually disable and > > > reenable preemption each time, so you trade a pair of add and sub on > > > x86 > > > > > > - preempt_disable() > > > __this_cpu_xxx() > > > __this_cpu_yyy() > > > - preempt_enable() > > > > > > with > > > > > > preempt_disable() > > > __this_cpu_xxx() > > > + preempt_enable() > > > + preempt_disable() > > > __this_cpu_yyy() > > > preempt_enable() > > > > > > everywhere else. > > > > That would be an unexpected race condition on non-x86, if you expected _xxx and > > _yyy to be done together without a preempt between them. Would take mere > > mortals forever to figure that one out. :) > > That should be fine, we don't require the two counters to be perfectly > coherent with respect to each other, which is the justification for > this optimization in the first place. I meant the general case - when reviewing code, I wouldn't expect 2 lines of code wrapped in preempt disable/enable to have a preempt window in the middle. ;) --==_Exmh_1313692071_2611P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOTVmncC3lWbTT17ARAsAVAKC1b5V9INlQmsHK6z1zZvAMTcqa4ACfTcSs GPK+HdG6a1iJ24jq/1lhWGs= =bIfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1313692071_2611P-- -- 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