On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 05:55:39AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:50:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 05:28:29AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > pool->lock is also going to be fairly badly contended in the worst case, > > > and that can get real bad real fast... now that I think about it we > > > probably want to avoid the __alloc_global_tag() double call just because > > > of that, pool->lock is going to be quite a bit more contended than the > > > waitlist lock just because fo the amount of work done under it. > > > > OK, how about this then.. Not quite at pretty though > > Heh, I suppose that is a solution. Let me screw around to see what I can > come up with tomorrow, but if I can't come up with anything I like I'm > not opposed to this. Please also consider the below patch. --- Subject: percpu-ida: Reduce IRQ held duration Its bad manners to hold IRQs disabled over a full cpumask iteration. Change it so that it disables the IRQs only where strictly required to avoid lock inversion issues. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/lib/percpu_ida.c +++ b/lib/percpu_ida.c @@ -342,33 +342,31 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__percpu_ida_init); int percpu_ida_for_each_free(struct percpu_ida *pool, percpu_ida_cb fn, void *data) { - unsigned long flags; struct percpu_ida_cpu *remote; - unsigned cpu, i, err = 0; + unsigned long flags; + int cpu, i, err = 0; - local_irq_save(flags); for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { remote = per_cpu_ptr(pool->tag_cpu, cpu); - spin_lock(&remote->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&remote->lock, flags); for (i = 0; i < remote->nr_free; i++) { err = fn(remote->freelist[i], data); if (err) break; } - spin_unlock(&remote->lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&remote->lock, flags); if (err) - goto out; + return err; } - spin_lock(&pool->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags); for (i = 0; i < pool->nr_free; i++) { err = fn(pool->freelist[i], data); if (err) break; } - spin_unlock(&pool->lock); -out: - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); + return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(percpu_ida_for_each_free); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html