From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period cleanup into kthread
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:29:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906172912.GJ2448@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346938478.18408.4.camel@twins>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags)
> > __releases(rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock)
> > {
> > + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags);
> > + wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */
> > }
>
> Could you now also clean up the locking so that the caller releases this
> lock?
>
> I so dislike asymmetric locking like that..
Or I could inline the whole thing at the two callsites...
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-30 18:18 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/23] Improvements to RT response on big systems and expedited functions Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period initialization to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 1:09 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05 1:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period cleanup into kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 1:22 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 1:36 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/23] rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 1:45 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/23] rcu: Break up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 2:11 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 18:49 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 19:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 20:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/23] rcu: Provide OOM handler to motivate lazy RCU callbacks Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 2:13 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-03 9:08 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-05 17:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 13:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 13:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-09-06 17:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 17:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/23] rcu: Segregate rcu_state fields to improve cache locality Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 2:51 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/23] rcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/23] rcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 5:23 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/23] rcu: Adjust debugfs tracing for kthread-based quiescent-state forcing Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 6:05 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/23] rcu: Prevent force_quiescent_state() memory contention Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 10:47 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/23] rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:30 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-03 9:31 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 18:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/23] rcu: Remove now-unused rcu_state fields Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:31 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/23] rcu: Make rcutree module parameters visible in sysfs Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:32 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/23] rcu: Prevent initialization-time quiescent-state race Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:37 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05 18:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-05 18:55 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05 19:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 14:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/23] rcu: Fix day-zero grace-period initialization/cleanup race Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:39 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/23] rcu: Add random PROVE_RCU_DELAY to grace-period initialization Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:41 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 19/23] rcu: Adjust for unconditional ->completed assignment Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:42 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 20/23] rcu: Remove callback acceleration from grace-period initialization Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:42 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/23] rcu: Eliminate signed overflow in synchronize_rcu_expedited() Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:43 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 22/23] rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:46 ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 23/23] rcu: Simplify quiescent-state detection Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03 9:56 ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 21:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-09-06 21:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
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