Re: [PATCH v1 5/9] memcg: replace stats_flush_lock with an atomic

From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, "Josef Bacik" <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	"Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Zefan Li" <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Vasily Averin" <vasily.averin@linux.dev>,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/9] memcg: replace stats_flush_lock with an atomic
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:28:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod4Gsngc6MjXdk4s5+ePVjsgcVppdRmsQovN6gSrxzdbfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 11:53 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
>
[...]
> > > +     if (atomic_xchg(&stats_flush_ongoing, 1))
> >
> > Have you profiled this? I wonder if we should replace the above with
> >
> >         if (atomic_read(&stats_flush_ongoing) || atomic_xchg(&stats_flush_ongoing, 1))
>
> I profiled the entire series with perf and I haven't noticed a notable
> difference between before and after the patch series -- but maybe some
> specific access patterns cause a regression, not sure.
>
> Does an atomic_cmpxchg() satisfy the same purpose? it's easier to read
> / more concise I guess.
>
> Something like
>
>     if (atomic_cmpxchg(&stats_flush_ongoing, 0, 1))
>
> WDYT?
>

No, I don't think cmpxchg will be any different from xchg(). On x86,
the cmpxchg will always write to stats_flush_ongoing and depending on
the comparison result, it will either be 0 or 1 here.

If you see the implementation of queued_spin_trylock(), it does the
same as well.