Re: [GIT PULL] Re: REGRESSION: Performance regressions from switching anon_vma->lock to mutex

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:58:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

* Andi Kleen [off-list ref] wrote:

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There's a crazy solution for that: the idle thread could process 
RCU callbacks carefully, as if it was running user-space code.

In Ben's kernel NFS server case the system may not be idle.

An always-100%-busy NFS server is very unlikely, but even in the 
hypothetical case a kernel NFS server is really performing system 
calls from a kernel thread in essence. If it doesn't do it explicitly 
then its main loop can easily include a "check RCU callbacks" call.

As long as they make sure to call it in a clean environment: no locks
held and so on.  But I am a bit worried about the possibility of someone
forgetting to put one of these where it is needed -- it would work just
fine for most workloads, but could fail only for rare workloads.

That said, invoking RCU core/callback processing from the scheduler
context certainly sounds like an interesting way to speed up grace
periods.

							Thanx, Paul

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