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SubjectRe: suspicious RCU due to "Prefer using an idle CPU as a migration target instead of comparing tasks"
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On Thu, Feb 27 2020, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this!
>
> The proposed fix would be a lot of rcu locks and unlocks. While they are
> cheap, they're not free and it's a fairly standard pattern to acquire
> the rcu lock when scanning CPUs during a domain search (load balancing,
> nohz balance, idle balance etc). While in this context the lock is only
> needed for SMT, I do not think it's worthwhile fine-graining this or
> conditionally acquiring the rcu lock so will we keep it simple?
>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 11cdba201425..d34ac4ea5cee 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1592,6 +1592,7 @@ static void update_numa_stats(struct task_numa_env *env,
> memset(ns, 0, sizeof(*ns));
> ns->idle_cpu = -1;
>
> + rcu_read_lock();
> for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask_of_node(nid)) {
> struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>
> @@ -1611,6 +1612,7 @@ static void update_numa_stats(struct task_numa_env *env,
> idle_core = numa_idle_core(idle_core, cpu);
> }
> }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
>
> ns->weight = cpumask_weight(cpumask_of_node(nid));
>


That's closer to what I was trying to suggest (i.e. broaden the section
rather than reduce it).

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