From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
<mingo@redhat.com>, <dave@stgolabs.net>,
<manfred@colorfullife.com>, <tj@kernel.org>, <arnd@arndb.de>,
<linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, <will.deacon@arm.com>,
<peterz@infradead.org>, <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 02/26] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:50:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1706301549240.2177-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170630192123.GA8471@redhat.com>
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/30, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 05:20:10PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > I do not think the overhead will be noticeable in this particular case.
> > >
> > > But I am not sure I understand why do we want to unlock_wait. Yes I agree,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> if it was not clear, I tried to say "why do we want to _remove_ unlock_wait".
>
> > > it has some problems, but still...
> > >
> > > The code above looks strange for me. If we are going to repeat this pattern
> > > the perhaps we should add a helper for lock+unlock and name it unlock_wait2 ;)
> > >
> > > If not, we should probably change this code more:
> >
> > This looks -much- better than my patch! May I have your Signed-off-by?
>
> Only if you promise to replace all RCU flavors with a single simple implementation
> based on rwlock ;)
>
> Seriously, of course I won't argue, and it seems that nobody except me likes
> this primitive, but to me spin_unlock_wait() looks like synchronize_rcu(() and
> sometimes it makes sense.
If it looks like synchronize_rcu(), why not actually use
synchronize_rcu()?
Alan Stern
> Including this particular case. task_work_run() is going to flush/destroy the
> ->task_works list, so it needs to wait until all currently executing "readers"
> (task_work_cancel()'s which have started before ->task_works was updated) have
> completed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-29 23:59 [PATCH RFC 0/26] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 01/26] netfilter: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <a6642feb-2f3a-980f-5ed6-2deb79563e6b@colorfullife.com>
2017-07-02 2:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 14:39 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-03 17:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 19:01 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-03 19:57 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 18:43 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-03 20:04 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-03 20:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 02/26] task_work: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 11:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 12:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 15:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 17:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 19:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 19:50 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2017-06-30 20:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 20:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 03/26] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 10:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-30 12:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 04/26] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 05/26] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 07/26] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 08/26] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 9:19 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 12:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 13:13 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 13:15 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-03 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-03 17:13 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-03 22:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-04 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-04 0:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 09/26] alpha: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 10/26] arc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 11/26] arm: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 9:20 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 13/26] blackfin: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 14/26] hexagon: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 15/26] ia64: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 16/26] m32r: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 18/26] mips: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 19/26] mn10300: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 20/26] parisc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 21/26] powerpc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-02 3:58 ` Boqun Feng
2017-07-05 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 22/26] s390: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 23/26] sh: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 24/26] sparc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-30 0:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-30 0:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 26/26] xtensa: " Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <1498780894-8253-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-01 19:23 ` [PATCH RFC 06/26] ipc: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Manfred Spraul
2017-07-02 3:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: Fix net_conntrack_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-06 20:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() David Laight
2017-07-06 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:49 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 19:37 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 16:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 17:08 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-06 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 17:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-07 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-07 14:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 8:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 11:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 17:47 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-08 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 11:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 12:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 14:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 16:21 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-10 17:22 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-07 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 9:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: Fix net_conntrack_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
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