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DateThu, 23 Nov 2006 11:35:10 +0300
FromPavel Emelianov <>
SubjectRe: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling
Paul Menage wrote:
> On 11/9/06, Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
>> +
>> +int bc_task_move(int pid, struct beancounter *bc, int whole)
>> +{
> 
> ...
> 
>> +
>> +       down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>> +       err = stop_machine_run(do_set_bcid, &data, NR_CPUS);
>> +       up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> 
> Isn't this a little heavyweight for moving a task into/between
> beancounters?

It's a main reason we were against moving arbitrary task.

We need to track the situation when we change beancounter on
task that is currently handles an interrupt and thus set a
temporary BC as exec one. I see no other way that keeps pair
set_exec_bc()/get_exec_bc() lock-less.

The problem is even larger than I've described. set_exec_bc()
is used widely in OpenVZ beancounters to set temporary context
e.g. for skb handling. Thus we need some safe way to "catch"
the task in a "safe" place. In OpenVZ we solve this by moving
only current into beancounter. In this patch set we have to
move arbitrary task and thus - such complication.

I repeat - we can do this w/o stop_machine, but this would
require locking in set_exec_bc()/get_exec_bc() but it's too
bad. Moving tasks happens rarely but setting context is a
very common operation (e.g. in each interrupt).

We can do the following:

  if (tsk == current)
      /* fast way */
      tsk->exec_bc = bc;
  else
      /* slow way */
      stop_machine_run(...);
What do you think?

> Paul
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