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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ns: move free_nsproxy() out of do_exit() path
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:08:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713140806.b3d0fda8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342180088-22647-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:48:08 +0300
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> 
> free_nsproxy() is too heavy to be on exit path. Let's free namespaces
> asynchronously to not block exit_group() syscall.

Please be specific, and complete.

Why is it "too heavy"?  Where is the time being spent?  Is it spent in
D state or is it spent burning CPU cycles?  Does the patch simply
offload the work into kernel threads, providing no net gain?

> The patch also fixes bug with free namespace without synchronize_rcu() through
> put_nsproxy().

I just don't understand this description.  Please send a new one which
includes all details about the bug, including a description of
the user-visible effects of the bug.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 11:48 [PATCH] ns: move free_nsproxy() out of do_exit() path Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-13 21:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-07-13 22:23   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-16 15:09   ` [PATCH v2] ns: do not block exit_task_namespaces() for a long time Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-16 15:39     ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-07-16 16:39       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-16 16:53         ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-07-16 16:53     ` Al Viro
2012-07-16 17:16       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-16 17:22         ` Al Viro
2012-07-16 21:05     ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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