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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org,
	hughd@google.com, khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru,
	daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm/lru: remove rcu_read_lock to fix performance regression
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:40:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191113114045.GZ3016@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6bb6739-cc00-cf9f-cd69-6016ce93e054@linux.alibaba.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:40:58AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> ?? 2019/11/12 ????10:38, Matthew Wilcox ????:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:06:26PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> >> Intel 0day report there are performance regression on this patchset.
> >> The detailed info points to rcu_read_lock + PROVE_LOCKING which causes
> >> queued_spin_lock_slowpath waiting too long time to get lock.
> >> Remove rcu_read_lock is safe here since we had a spinlock hold.
> > Argh.  You have not sent these patches in a properly reviewable form!
> > I wasted all that time reviewing the earlier patch in this series only to
> > find out that you changed it here.  FIX THE PATCH, don't send a fix-patch
> > on top of it!
> > 
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Very sorry for your time! The main reasons I use a separate patch since a, Intel 0day asking me to credit their are founding, and I don't know how to give a clearly/elegant explanation for a non-exist regression in a fixed patch. b, this regression is kindly pretty tricky.  Maybe it's better saying thanks in version change log of cover-letter?
> 

Add something like this to the patch

[lkp@intel.com: Fix RCU-related regression reported by LKP robot]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
...

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-13 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 14:06 [PATCH v2 0/8] per lruvec lru_lock for memcg Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock " Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] mm/lruvec: add irqsave flags into lruvec struct Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] mm/lru: only change the lru_lock iff page's lruvec is different Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:36   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-13  2:26     ` Alex Shi
2019-11-13 13:45       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-14  6:01         ` Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru_lock Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] mm/lru: remove rcu_read_lock to fix performance regression Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:38   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-13  2:40     ` Alex Shi
2019-11-13 11:40       ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2019-11-14  6:02         ` Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] mm/lru: likely enhancement Alex Shi
2019-11-12 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock Alex Shi

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