Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] cgroup/rstat: convert cgroup_rstat_lock back to mutex

Yosry Ahmed
2024-04-18T20:40:19Z

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 7:49 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 18/04/2024 04.19, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> [...]
> > >
> > > I will keep the high-level conversation about using the mutex here in
> > > the cover letter thread, but I am wondering why we are keeping the
> > > lock dropping logic here with the mutex?
> > >
> >
> > I agree that yielding the mutex in the loop makes less sense.
> > Especially since the raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(cpu_lock, flags) call
> > will be a preemption point for my softirq. But I kept it because, we
> > are running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernel, so I still worried that
> > there was no sched point for other userspace processes while holding the
> > mutex, but I don't fully know the sched implication when holding a mutex.
> >
>
> Are the softirqs you are interested in, raised from the same cpu or
> remote cpu? What about local_softirq_pending() check in addition to
> need_resched() and spin_needbreak() checks? If softirq can only be
> raised on local cpu then convert the spin_lock to non-irq one (Please
> correct me if I am wrong but on return from hard irq and not within bh
> or irq disabled spin_lock, the kernel will run the pending softirqs,
> right?). Did you get the chance to test these two changes or something
> similar in your prod environment?

I tried making the spinlock a non-irq lock before, but Tejun objected [1].

Perhaps we could experiment with always dropping the lock at CPU
boundaries instead?

[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZBz%2FV5a7%2F6PZeM7S@slm.duckdns.org/