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SubjectRe: [resend][PATCH v2] mlock() doesn't wait to finish lru_add_drain_all()
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> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:21:55 +0900 (JST)
> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > Recently, Mike Galbraith reported mlock() makes hang-up very long time in
> > his system. Peter Zijlstra explainted the reason.
> >
> > Suppose you have 2 cpus, cpu1 is busy doing a SCHED_FIFO-99 while(1),
> > cpu0 does mlock()->lru_add_drain_all(), which does
> > schedule_on_each_cpu(), which then waits for all cpus to complete the
> > work. Except that cpu1, which is busy with the RT task, will never run
> > keventd until the RT load goes away.
> >
> > This is not so much an actual deadlock as a serious starvation case.
> >
> > His system has two partions using cpusets and RT-task partion cpu doesn't
> > have any PCP cache. thus, this result was pretty unexpected.
> >
> > The fact is, mlock() doesn't need to wait to finish lru_add_drain_all().
> > if mlock() can't turn on PG_mlock, vmscan turn it on later.
> >
> > Thus, this patch replace it with lru_add_drain_all_async().
>
> So why don't we just remove the lru_add_drain_all() call from sys_mlock()?

There are small reason. the administrators and the testers (include me)
look at Mlock field in /proc/meminfo.
They natually expect Mlock field match with actual number of mlocked pages
if the system don't have any stress. Otherwise, we can't make mlock test case ;)


> How did you work out why the lru_add_drain_all() is present in
> sys_mlock() anyway? Neither the code nor the original changelog tell
> us. Who do I thwap for that? Nick and his reviewers. Sigh.

[Umm, My dictionaly don't tell me the meaning of "thwap". An meaning of
an imitative word strongly depend on culture. Thus, I probably
misunderstand this paragraph.]

I've understand the existing reason by looooooong time review.


> There are many callers of lru_add_drain_all() all over the place. Each
> of those is vulnerable to the same starvation issue, is it not?

There are.

> If so, it would be better to just fix up lru_add_drain_all(). Afaict
> all of its functions can be performed in hard IRQ context, so we can
> use smp_call_function()?

There is a option. but it have one downside, it require lru_add_pvecs
related function call irq_disable().

__lru_cache_add() is often called from page fault path. then we need
performance mesurement.






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