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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:05:50 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Severe performance regression w/ 4.4+ on Android due to cgroup
	locking changes
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On 07/14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:58:44PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > But note that we do not need RCU_NONE. All we need is the trivial change
> > below.
>
> Hurm, maybe. So having that unbalanced keeps us in GP_PASSED state and
> since we'll never drop gp_count back to 0 nothing will ever happen.

Yes, exactly. Of course, this is a bit ugly, I'll try to send some
rcu-sync cleanups/simplifications later.

Perhaps we can even add a "cgroup migration is not that cold as it was
supposed" boot option for this rcu_sync_enter() for now, not sure.

> > Damn, I am trying to find my old rcu-sync patches which I didn't
> > send, but can't... OK, this almost off-topic right now, just this "enter"
> > is ugly and we can't switch the slow/fast modes dynamically.
> >
> > The rest of you patch is "optimize the slow path" and we already discussed
> > it before, I personally like it. Perhaps you can redo it without RCU_NONE
> > part?
>
> Indeed, I rebased that patch on top of the current tree and had to add
> support for down_trylock() but otherwise much the same thing.
>
> I can send it out again.

Great, thanks! This should fix the problem.

Oleg.