On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 09:10:48AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > > > I think it will be a significant improvement to have a single code path. > > > The code will be more robust and we won't need to face issues that are > > > specific for blocking. > > > > > > If the cost is negligible, I think the upside is worth it. > > > > > > > rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock has been proved as efficient enough, > > and I don't think percpu_refcount is better than it, so I'd suggest to > > not switch non-blocking into this way. > > It's not a matter of which is better, its a matter of making the code > more robust because it has a single code-path. If moving to percpu_ref > is negligible, I would suggest to move both, I don't want to have two > completely different mechanism for blocking vs. non-blocking. FWIW, I proposed an hctx percpu_ref over a year ago (but for a completely different reason), and it was measured as too costly. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/d4a4b6c0-3ea8-f748-85b0-6b39c5023a6f@xxxxxxxxx/
