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SubjectRe: [PATCH 20/43] workqueue: reimplement work flushing using linked works
Hello,

On 03/01/2010 11:53 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/26, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>> +static void move_linked_works(struct work_struct *work, struct list_head *head,
>> + struct work_struct **nextp)
>> +{
>> ...
>> + work = list_entry(work->entry.prev, struct work_struct, entry);
>> + list_for_each_entry_safe_continue(work, n, NULL, entry) {
>
> list_for_each_entry_safe_from(work) ? It doesn't need to move this
> work back.

Yeap, that will be prettier. I used _continue there thinking continue
will step from the current one and after finding out that it didn't, I
rewound work not knowing about _from. Will update.

>> @@ -680,7 +734,27 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__worker)
>> if (kthread_should_stop())
>> break;
>>
>> - run_workqueue(worker);
>> + spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
>> +
>> + while (!list_empty(&cwq->worklist)) {
>> + struct work_struct *work =
>> + list_first_entry(&cwq->worklist,
>> + struct work_struct, entry);
>> +
>> + if (likely(!(*work_data_bits(work) &
>> + WORK_STRUCT_LINKED))) {
>> + /* optimization path, not strictly necessary */
>> + process_one_work(worker, work);
>> + if (unlikely(!list_empty(&worker->scheduled)))
>> + process_scheduled_works(worker);
>> + } else {
>> + move_linked_works(work, &worker->scheduled,
>> + NULL);
>> + process_scheduled_works(worker);
>> + }
>> + }
>
> So. If the next pending work W doesn't have WORK_STRUCT_LINKED,
> it will be executed first, then we flush ->scheduled.
>
> But,
>
>> static void insert_wq_barrier(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq,
>> - struct wq_barrier *barr, struct list_head *head)
>> + struct wq_barrier *barr,
>> + struct work_struct *target, struct worker *worker)
>> {
>> ...
>> + /*
>> + * If @target is currently being executed, schedule the
>> + * barrier to the worker; otherwise, put it after @target.
>> + */
>> + if (worker)
>> + head = worker->scheduled.next;
>
> this is the "target == current_work" case,
>
>> - insert_work(cwq, &barr->work, head, work_color_to_flags(WORK_NO_COLOR));
>> + insert_work(cwq, &barr->work, head,
>> + work_color_to_flags(WORK_NO_COLOR) | linked);
>> }
>
> and in this case we put this barrier at the head of ->scheduled list.
>
> This means, this barrier will run after that work W, not before it?

Yes, the barrier will run after the target work as it should.

> Hmm. And what if there are no pending works but ->current_work == target ?
> Again, we add the barrier to ->scheduled, but in this case worker_thread()
> can't even notice ->scheduled is not empty because it only checks ->worklist?

A worker always checks ->scheduled after a work is finished. IOW, if
someone saw worker->current_work == target while holding the lock, the
worker will check the scheduled queue after finishing the target. If
it's not doing it somewhere, it's a bug.

> insert_wq_barrier() also does:
>
> unsigned long *bits = work_data_bits(target);
> ...
> *bits |= WORK_STRUCT_LINKED;
>
> perhaps this needs atomic_long_set(), although I am not sure this really
> matters.

Yeah, well, work->data access is pretty messed up. At this point,
there's no reason for atomic_long_t to begin with. No real
atomic_long operations are used anyway. Maybe work->data started as
proper atomic_long_t and lost its properness as it got overloaded with
multiple things. I'm thinking about just making it a unsigned long
and killing work_data_bits().

Thanks.

--
tejun


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