Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:02:40 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> > Another possibility might be to change lru_add_drain_all() to use IPI
> > interrupts rather than schedule_on_each_cpu(). __That would greatly
> > speed up lru_add_drain_all(). __I don't recall why we did it that way
> > and I don't immediately see a reason not to. __A few things in core mm
> > would need to be changed from spin_lock_irq() to spin_lock_irqsave().
> >
> > But I do have vague memories that there was a reason for it.
> >
> > <It's a huge PITA locating the commit which initially added
> > lru_add_drain_all()>
> >
> > <ten minutes later>
> >
> > : tree 05d7615894131a368fc4943f641b11acdd2ae694
> > : parent e236a166b2bc437769a9b8b5d19186a3761bde48
> > : author Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:42:27 -0800
> > : committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:20:17 -0800
> > :
> > : [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
> > :
> > : Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
> > : properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
> > : reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
> > : it.
> > :
> > : Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
> > : refcount.
> > :
> > : Other small cleanups while we're here.
> >
> > It didn't tell us.
> >
> > <looks in the linux-mm archives>
> >
> > Nope, no rationale is provided there either.
> 
> Maybe this thread?
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/23/226

Close.  There's some talk there of using smp_call_function() (actually
on_each_cpu()) within lru_add_drain_all(), but nobody seems to have
tried it.