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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Optimize the cpu hotplug locking -v2
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 02:23:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131014092355.GM5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131014090508.GW3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:05:08AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 07:06:56PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > it even disables irqs, so this should always imply rcu_read_lock() with
> > any implementation, 
> 
> Not so; I could make an RCU implementation that drives the state machine
> from rcu_read_unlock(). Such an implementation doesn't need the
> interrupt driven poll-state driver we currently have and could thus
> subvert that assumption :-)
> 
> Then again, there's a good reason PaulMck didn't pick this
> implementation.

True enough, but there really are some out-of-tree RCU implementations
that do take this approach and where disabling interrupts would not
block preemptible RCU.  So please do not rely on this implementation
detail.  You never know...

> > In fact I do not even understand why getaffinity() doesn't simply
> > return ->cpus_allowed, but this is off-topic.
> 
> Yeah, me neither :-(, it always surprises me. But changing it is likely
> to break stuff so there we are.

I know that feeling...

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-14  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 10:25 [PATCH 0/6] Optimize the cpu hotplug locking -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] hotplug: Optimize {get,put}_online_cpus() Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 15:08   ` Rik van Riel
2013-10-10  5:47   ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 11:06     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-10 14:55       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] rcu: Create rcu_sync infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 20:40   ` Jonathan Corbet
2013-10-09 19:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-17  2:56   ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-10-17 10:36   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] hotplug: Optimize cpu_hotplug_{begin,done}() using rcu_sync Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 16:28   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] rcusync: Introduce struct rcu_sync_ops Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 16:30   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-17  2:07   ` Lai Jiangshan
     [not found]     ` <20131017154228.GL4553@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-18  1:23       ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-10-18 12:10         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-20 16:58           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] rcusync: Add the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 16:30   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-08 10:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] rcusync: Introduce rcu_sync_dtor() Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 16:32   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-08 15:27 ` [PATCH 0/6] Optimize the cpu hotplug locking -v2 Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-08 15:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10  5:50 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10  6:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10  6:34     ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10  7:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10  7:33         ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10  7:45           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 12:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 14:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 15:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 15:36         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-10 16:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 17:13           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-10 17:35             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 18:35             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 15:26       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-10 16:00         ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 16:36           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-10 16:43             ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 16:53               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 17:13                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-10 17:48                   ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-10 18:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-10 18:43                       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-10 18:50                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 19:15                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-10 19:00                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-10 18:46                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 18:34                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 18:49                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-10 19:04                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-10 19:16                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-10 19:34                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 19:34                             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-11  6:09                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-11 12:38                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-11 18:25                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-11 20:48                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-12 17:06                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-14  9:05                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-14  9:23                                   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-10-15  1:01                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-17 16:49                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-10 17:39                 ` [PATCH 0/6] Optimize the cpu hotplug locking -v2 Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-10 16:52           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 17:44             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-10 16:54           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-10 19:04             ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-10-10 18:52         ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-11 12:14 George Spelvin
2013-10-11 12:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-11 13:51   ` George Spelvin

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