From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 2/2] mm/memory-hotplug: Switch locking to a percpu rwsem
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 08:42:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170704154208.GC11168@linux-80c1.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1707041732030.9000@nanos>
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>
>> > As a side effect you end up optimizing get/put_online_mems() at the cost
>> > of more overhead for the actual hotplug operation, which is rare and of less
>> > performance importance.
>>
>> So nm this, the reader side actually gets _more_ expensive with pcpu-rwsems
>> due to at least two full barriers for each get/put operation.
>
>Compared to a mutex_lock/unlock() pair on a global mutex ....
Ah, right, I was thrown off the:
if (mem_hotplug.active_writer == current)
return;
checks, which is only true within hotplug_begin/end. So normally we'd take
the lock, which was my first impression. Sorry for the noise.
Thanks,
Davidlohr
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-04 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-04 9:32 [patch V2 0/2] mm/memory_hotplug: Cure potential deadlocks vs. cpu hotplug lock Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 9:32 ` [patch V2 1/2] mm: swap: Provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 10:58 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-04 12:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 12:52 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-04 12:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-04 12:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 9:32 ` [patch V2 2/2] mm/memory-hotplug: Switch locking to a percpu rwsem Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 10:59 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-04 12:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-04 12:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 15:01 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2017-07-04 15:22 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2017-07-04 15:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-04 15:42 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2017-07-05 21:53 ` [patch V2 0/2] mm/memory_hotplug: Cure potential deadlocks vs. cpu hotplug lock Andrew Morton
2017-07-06 6:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
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