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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] stop_machine: reimplement using cpuhog
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:53:21AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Reimplement stop_machine using cpuhog. As cpuhogs are guaranteed to
> be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no
> longer necessary and removed.
>
> With resource management and synchronization handled by cpuhog, the
> new implementation is much simpler. Asking the cpuhog to execute the
> stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug disabled
> is enough.
>
> stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources
> anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct
> stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are
> removed.
>
> The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as
> necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very
> large machines. According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic
> creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very
> large machines. cpuhog resources are preallocated for all online cpus
> and should have the same effect.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
> ---
> arch/s390/kernel/time.c | 1 -
> drivers/xen/manage.c | 14 +---
> include/linux/stop_machine.h | 20 -----
> kernel/cpu.c | 8 --
> kernel/module.c | 14 +---
> kernel/stop_machine.c | 162 ++++++++++--------------------------------
> 6 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/time.c b/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
> index 65065ac..afe429e 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
> @@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ static void __init time_init_wq(void)
> if (time_sync_wq)
> return;
> time_sync_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("timesync");
> - stop_machine_create();
> }
>
> /*

The reason we introduced stop_machine_create/destroy was to have a non-failing
variant that doesn't rely on I/O.
If we ever see a timesync machine check no I/O will succeed (it blocks) until
clocks have been synchronized. That means also that we rely on the non-blocking
semantics that those functions must have that are called via stop_machine.
This isn't true anymore with the cpu hog infrastructure:
if passed a blocking function that could wait on I/O we won't see any progress
anymore and the machine is dead.


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