From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Al Viro' <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yuqi Jin <jinyuqi@huawei.com>,
kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [NAK] Re: [PATCH] fs: Optimized fget to improve performance
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:29:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a12ae69f87e44c7f94cc5283ff55643a@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200831032127.GW1236603@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
From: Al Viro
> Sent: 31 August 2020 04:21
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:43:31AM +0800, Shaokun Zhang wrote:
>
> > How about this? We try to replace atomic_cmpxchg with atomic_add to improve
> > performance. The atomic_add does not check the current f_count value.
> > Therefore, the number of online CPUs is reserved to prevent multi-core
> > competition.
>
> No. Really, really - no. Not unless you can guarantee that process on another
> CPU won't lose its timeslice, ending up with more than one increment happening on
> the same CPU - done by different processes scheduled there, one after another.
>
> If you have some change of atomic_long_add_unless(), do it there. And get it
> past the arm64 folks. get_file_rcu() is nothing special in that respect *AND*
> it has to cope with any architecture out there.
>
> BTW, keep in mind that there's such thing as a KVM - race windows are much
> wider there, since a thread representing a guest CPU might lose its timeslice
> whenever the host feels like that. At which point you get a single instruction
> on a guest CPU taking longer than many thousands of instructions on another
> CPU of the same guest.
The same thing can happen if a hardware interrupt occurs.
Not only the delays for the interrupt itself, but all the softint
processing that happens as well.
That can take a long time - even milliseconds.
David
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 10:19 [PATCH] fs: Optimized fget to improve performance Shaokun Zhang
2020-08-27 12:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 13:07 ` David Laight
2020-08-27 14:28 ` [NAK] " Al Viro
2020-08-28 11:04 ` Will Deacon
2020-08-31 1:43 ` Shaokun Zhang
2020-08-31 3:21 ` Al Viro
2020-09-01 9:29 ` David Laight [this message]
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