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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.19 599/639] net: avoid possible false sharing in sk_leave_memory_pressure()
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 9:15 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri 2020-01-24 10:32:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 503978aca46124cd714703e180b9c8292ba50ba7 ]
> >
> > As mentioned in https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/READ_ONCE-and-WRITE_ONCE#it-may-improve-performance
> > a C compiler can legally transform :
> >
> > if (memory_pressure && *memory_pressure)
> > *memory_pressure = 0;
> >
> > to :
> >
> > if (memory_pressure)
> > *memory_pressure = 0;
>
> Well, C compiler can do a lot of stuff, and we rely on C compiler
> being "sane" -- that is gcc.
>
> Even if compiler did the transformation, that will only result in
> slightly slower performance, right?
>
> Is there any evidence this is problem in practice? Should this be in
> stable?

There is evidence of this problem in practice yes.

Should it be in stable I do not know.
Should stable kernels only be compiled by old compilers, I do not know.

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