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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, hughd@google.com, avi@redhat.com,
	nate@cpanel.net, cl@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dpshah@google.com,
	ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:11:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227031146.GA25187@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120225214421.GA3401@dhcp-172-17-108-109.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:44:21AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Vivek.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Ok. I will write a patch. Things have changed a lot since last time.
> > I think there is only one tricky part and that is waiting for any
> > scheduled work to finish during blkg destruction.  Because group destruction
> > happens under both queue and blkcg spin locks, I think I will have to take
> > the group off list, drop locks, wait for worker thread to finish and then
> > take locks again and walk through list again to kill remaining groups.
> 
> Rather than embedding work_struct into blkg and tying work and blkg
> destruction, why not just create a spinlock protected alloc-pending
> list?  On blkg creation, link blkg onto that list and kick shared work
> item and on destruction, just unlink it.  Worker function can walk the
> list and try to alloc for all and reschedule if alloc fails.

Ok. This sounds better than embeding work_struct in blkg, I can embed it
in request_queue and make the worker walk the list of blkg pending 
alloc of stats. Will try that. Thanks for the idea.

Thanks
Vivek

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23 22:30 [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] mempool: factor out mempool_fill() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] mempool: separate out __mempool_create() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] mempool, percpu: implement percpu mempool Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: fix deadlock through percpu allocation in blk-cgroup Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] blkcg: don't use percpu for merged stats Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] blkcg: simplify stat reset Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] blkcg: restructure blkio_get_stat() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] blkcg: remove blkio_group->stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:43 ` [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 23:01   ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:12     ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:22       ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 23:24         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-24 14:20       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:44         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27  3:11           ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-02-27  9:11             ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 19:43               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 17:36                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 22:13                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-06 21:09                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:20                       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-06 21:34                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:55                           ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 14:55                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 17:05                               ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:13                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 19:22                                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:42                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 22:56                                       ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:08                                         ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 23:15                                           ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:05                               ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 17:57                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:08                                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:11                                     ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:22                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:27                                         ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-15 16:48                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-15 16:59                                             ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-20 11:50                                               ` Jens Axboe
2012-03-08 20:16                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:33                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:35                                         ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 19:06                                   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-25  3:44       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:46         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-25 22:21           ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 14:25             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-27 14:40               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:45                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 18:22       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 19:03         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:20           ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-05 18:03             ` Vivek Goyal

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