From: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmalloc: Use the vmap_area_lock to protect ne_fit_preload_node
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:34:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007163443.6owts5jp2frum7cy@beryllium.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191007162330.GA26503@pc636>
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> Hello, Daniel, Sebastian.
>
> > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 06:30:42PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > > On 2019-10-04 18:20:41 [+0200], Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > > > > If we have migrate_disable/enable, then, i think preempt_enable/disable
> > > > > should be replaced by it and not the way how it has been proposed
> > > > > in the patch.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think this patch is appropriate for upstream.
> > >
> > > Yes, I agree. The discussion made this clear, this is only for -rt
> > > trees. Initially I though this should be in mainline too.
> >
> > Sorry, this was _before_ Uladzislau pointed out that you *just* moved
> > the lock that was there from the beginning. I missed that while looking
> > over the patch. Based on that I don't think that this patch is not
> > appropriate for upstream.
> >
> Yes that is a bit messy :) Then i do not see what that patch fixes in
> mainline? Instead it will just add an extra blocking, i did not want that
> therefore used preempt_enable/disable. But, when i saw this patch i got it
> as a preparation of PREEMPT_RT merging work.
Maybe I should add some background info here as well. Currently, I am
creating an -rt tree on v5.3 for which I need this patch (or a
migrate_disable() version of it). So this is slightly independent of
the work Sebiastian is doing. Though the mainline effort of PREEMPT_RT
will hit this problem as well.
I understood Sebiastian wrong above. I thought he suggest to use the
migrate_disable() approach even for mainline.
I supppose, one thing which would help in this discussion, is what do
you gain by using preempt_disable() instead of moving the lock up?
Do you have performance numbers which could justify the code?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-07 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-03 9:09 [PATCH] mm: vmalloc: Use the vmap_area_lock to protect ne_fit_preload_node Daniel Wagner
2019-10-03 11:55 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-04 15:37 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-10-04 16:20 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-04 16:30 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-10-04 17:04 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-04 17:45 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-10-07 8:30 ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-07 10:56 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-10-07 16:23 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-07 16:34 ` Daniel Wagner [this message]
2019-10-07 16:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-07 17:22 ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-07 17:36 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-10-07 21:44 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-08 16:04 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-09 6:05 ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-09 9:47 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-07 8:27 ` Daniel Wagner
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