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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs when reading across CPUs.
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:26:41 -0500
Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alternatively, you could get rid of the problem by making sure CPU0
>> never reads CPU1's data, by having the userspace reader use per-cpu
>> threads and using sched_setaffinity() to pin each thread to a given
>> cpu. See for example, the blktrace code, which does this.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote:
> Yes, and performance-wise this is better. Though I'm not sure setting
> affinity is 100% safe. Will the thread be migrated soon enough, so we
> don't read cross-CPU? The point is I'm not sure how hard this is
> enforced.
>
> However, I suggest this patch should go in, for two reasons:
> 1. It provides expected behavior in any such situation.
> 2. It adds (almost) no overhead when used in conjuction with setting CPU
> affinity. When the writer acquires the spinlock, it does not busy-wait,
> so the spinlock just disables IRQs (relay_write()).

Agreed. Tom, any objections to merging this patch?


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