From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] blkcg: let blkio_group point to blkio_cgroup directly
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:55:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202205532.GD1723@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120202203352.GG19837@google.com>
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:33:52PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:03:18PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > +static void blkiocg_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *subsys, struct cgroup *cgroup)
> > > +{
> > > + struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg = cgroup_to_blkio_cgroup(cgroup);
> > > +
> > > if (blkcg != &blkio_root_cgroup)
> > > kfree(blkcg);
> >
> > What makes sure that all the blkg are gone and they have dropped their
> > reference to blkcg? IIUC, pre-destroy will just make sure to decouple
> > blkg from request queue as well as blkcg list and also drop joint cgroup
> > and request queue reference.
> >
> > But there could well be some IO queued in the group which might have
> > its own reference and will be dropped later when IO completes. So at
> > the time of blkiocg_destroy() it is not guranteed that there are
> > no reference holders to blkcg?
>
> Yeah, and that would wait till all css refs held by blkgs are gone,
> right?
Ok, I missed that. So ->destroy() is not called till all the css refs
are gone. So directory removal will wait for all the pending IO in the
group to finish.
I have some minor concerns here. A low prio group might not be able to
dispatch IO for quite some amount of time. Especially with CFQ, in presence of
sync IO, async IO can be starved for a very long time. So if some task
dumped bunch of low prio IO and exited and now we are removing the cgroup,
this task might have to wait for significant amount of time. (I am worried
about "hung task waited for 120 seconds kind of messages").
Also it is little unintutive to the user that why rmdir should be delayed.
Anyway, this is not a very strong concern. Just something to keep in mind.
Thanks
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 21:19 [PATCHSET] blkcg: unify blkgs for different policies Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 01/11] blkcg: let blkio_group point to blkio_cgroup directly Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:55 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 02/11] block: relocate elevator initialized test from blk_cleanup_queue() to blk_drain_queue() Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:38 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 03/11] blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 04/11] blkcg: clear all request_queues on blkcg policy [un]registrations Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 05/11] blkcg: let blkcg core handle policy private data allocation Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 06/11] blkcg: move refcnt to blkcg core Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 22:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 22:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 07/11] blkcg: make blkg->pd an array and move configuration and stats into it Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 08/11] blkcg: don't use blkg->plid in stat related functions Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 09/11] blkcg: move per-queue blkg list heads and counters to queue and blkg Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 10/11] blkcg: let blkcg core manage per-queue blkg list and counter Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 21:19 ` [PATCH 11/11] blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policies Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 0:37 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 19:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 20:59 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 21:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 22:14 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 22:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 22:28 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-03 21:09 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 21:10 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-14 1:33 ` [PATCH UPDATED2 " Tejun Heo
2012-02-15 17:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-16 22:42 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 19:29 ` [PATCHSET] blkcg: unify blkgs for different policies Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:36 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-02 20:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-02 20:59 ` Tejun Heo
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