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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/9] blkcg: drop unnecessary RCU locking
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:07:13AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:19:58AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:37:51PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Now that blkg additions / removals are always done under both q and
> > > blkcg locks, the only place RCU locking is used is blkg_lookup() for
> > > lockless lookup. This patch drops unncessary RCU locking replacing it
> > > with plain blkcg / q locking as necessary.
> > >
> > > * blkg_lookup_create() and blkiocg_pre_destroy() already perform
> > > proper locking and don't need RCU. Dropped.
> >
> > But blkg_lookup_create() is called under rcu() to protect blkcg pointer.
> > And blkg_lookup() is also happening under same rcu read lock. So I think
> > you can't drop rcu from blkg_lookup_create().
>
> Ooh, right. Will fix.

BTW, the reason this doesn't work is due to the broken percpu
allocation in blkg_alloc(). We should remove unnecessary rcu lockings
after updating stat allocation.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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