From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] hugetlbfs: Limit wait time when trying to share huge PMD
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:43:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ac9e4f-9301-9eb7-e68b-a877e7cf0384@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7d7d109-03cf-d750-3a56-a95837998372@redhat.com>
On 9/12/19 2:06 AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> If we can take the rwsem in read mode, that should solve the problem
> AFAICS. As I don't have a full understanding of the history of that
> code, I didn't try to do that in my patch.
Do you still have access to an environment that creates the long stalls?
If so, can you try the simple change of taking the semaphore in read mode
in huge_pmd_share.
--
Mike Kravetz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-12 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-11 15:05 [PATCH 0/5] hugetlbfs: Disable PMD sharing for large systems Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/5] locking/rwsem: Add down_write_timedlock() Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] locking/rwsem: Enable timeout check when spinning on owner Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/5] locking/osq: Allow early break from OSQ Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 4/5] locking/rwsem: Enable timeout check when staying in the OSQ Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] hugetlbfs: Limit wait time when trying to share huge PMD Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-11 15:44 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 17:03 ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-11 17:15 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 17:22 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 17:28 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 16:01 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 16:34 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 19:42 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 20:54 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 21:57 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 19:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-11 20:51 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12 3:26 ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-12 3:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-12 4:40 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2019-09-16 13:53 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12 9:06 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12 16:43 ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2019-09-13 18:23 ` Waiman Long
2019-09-13 1:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] hugetlbfs: Disable PMD sharing for large systems Dave Chinner
2019-09-25 8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
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