From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, zab@redhat.com, bcrl@kvack.org,
jmoyer@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
tytso@mit.edu, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/32] Generic dynamic per cpu refcounting
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:32:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130128183246.GB26407@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130128175951.GA22465@mtj.dyndns.org>
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:59:51AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Kent.
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:53:04AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > Like Tejun, I'd prefer to see it always alloc up-front, because it
> > > avoids the _noalloc variant (which is backwards: please hand gfp_t, so
> > > you don't hide the alloc) and heuristics.
> >
> > Problem with gfp_t is alloc_percpu() doesn't take it. I don't know why,
> > but this all goes away with Tejun's idea for allocating from a pool
> > refilled by workqueue.
>
> It goes down to how we allocate page tables. percpu depends on
> vmalloc space allocation which in turn depends on page table
> allocation which unfortunately assumes GFP_KERNEL and is spread all
> across different architectures. Adding @gfp to it came up a couple
> times but the cases weren't strong enough to push it all the way
> through. There are some aspects that I like about forcing GFP_KERNEL
> on all percpu allocations but if there are strong enough cases and
> someone is willing enough to push it through, maybe.
Ahh, thanks for explaining, was curious about that.
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-27 1:59 [PATCH 00/32] AIO performance improvements/cleanups, v3 Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 01/32] mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 02/32] aio: remove dead code from aio.h Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 03/32] gadget: remove only user of aio retry Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 04/32] aio: remove retry-based AIO Kent Overstreet
2012-12-29 7:36 ` Hillf Danton
2013-01-07 22:12 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-29 7:47 ` Hillf Danton
2013-01-07 22:15 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 05/32] char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero} Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 06/32] aio: Kill return value of aio_complete() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 07/32] aio: kiocb_cancel() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 08/32] aio: Move private stuff out of aio.h Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 09/32] aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 10/32] aio: do fget() after aio_get_req() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 11/32] aio: Make aio_put_req() lockless Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 12/32] aio: Refcounting cleanup Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 13/32] wait: Add wait_event_hrtimeout() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 10:37 ` Fubo Chen
2013-01-03 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-08 0:09 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 14/32] aio: Make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers Kent Overstreet
2013-01-03 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-08 0:28 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-08 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-08 1:28 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 15/32] aio: Use flush_dcache_page() Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 16/32] aio: Use cancellation list lazily Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 17/32] aio: Change reqs_active to include unreaped completions Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 18/32] aio: Kill batch allocation Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 19/32] aio: Kill struct aio_ring_info Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 1:59 ` [PATCH 20/32] aio: Give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines Kent Overstreet
2013-01-03 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-07 23:48 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 21/32] aio: reqs_active -> reqs_available Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 22/32] aio: percpu reqs_available Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 23/32] Generic dynamic per cpu refcounting Kent Overstreet
2013-01-03 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-07 23:47 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-08 1:03 ` [PATCH] percpu-refcount: Sparse fixes Kent Overstreet
2013-01-25 0:51 ` [PATCH 23/32] Generic dynamic per cpu refcounting Tejun Heo
2013-01-25 1:13 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-25 2:03 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-25 2:09 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-28 17:48 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-28 18:18 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-25 6:15 ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-28 17:53 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-28 17:59 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-28 18:32 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2013-01-28 18:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-02-08 14:44 ` Tejun Heo
2013-02-08 14:49 ` Jens Axboe
2013-02-08 17:50 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-08 21:27 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-02-11 14:21 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-02-08 21:17 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 24/32] aio: Percpu ioctx refcount Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 25/32] aio: use xchg() instead of completion_lock Kent Overstreet
2013-01-03 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-07 23:21 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-07 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-08 0:01 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 26/32] aio: Don't include aio.h in sched.h Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 27/32] aio: Kill ki_key Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 28/32] aio: Kill ki_retry Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 29/32] block, aio: Batch completion for bios/kiocbs Kent Overstreet
2013-01-04 9:22 ` Jens Axboe
2013-01-07 23:34 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-08 15:33 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-01-08 16:06 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-01-08 16:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-01-08 16:48 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 30/32] virtio-blk: Convert to batch completion Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 31/32] mtip32xx: " Kent Overstreet
2012-12-27 2:00 ` [PATCH 32/32] aio: Smoosh struct kiocb Kent Overstreet
2013-01-04 9:22 ` [PATCH 00/32] AIO performance improvements/cleanups, v3 Jens Axboe
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