On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 01:13 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Each cpu should have its own rw semaphore in its cache, so I don't see a
> problem there.
>
> When you change block size, all 4096 rw semaphores are locked for write,
> but changing block size is not a performance sensitive operation.
>
> > Really you shouldnt use rwlock in a path if this might hurt performance.
> >
> > RCU is probably a better answer.
>
> RCU is meaningless here. RCU allows lockless dereference of a pointer.
> Here the problem is not pointer dereference, the problem is that integer
> bd_block_size may change.
So add a pointer if you need to. Thats the point.
>
> > (bdev->bd_block_size should be read exactly once )
>
> Rewrite all direct and non-direct io code so that it reads block size just
> once ...
You introduced percpu rw semaphores, thats only incentive for people to
use that infrastructure elsewhere.
And its a big hammer :
sizeof(struct rw_semaphore)=0x70
You can probably design something needing no more than 4 bytes per cpu,
and this thing could use non locked operations as bonus.
like the following ...
struct percpu_rw_semaphore {
/* percpu_sem_down_read() use the following in fast path */
unsigned int __percpu *active_counters;
unsigned int __percpu *counters;
struct rw_semaphore sem; /* used in slow path and by writers */
};
static inline int percpu_sem_init(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
p->counters = alloc_percpu(unsigned int);
if (!p->counters)
return -ENOMEM;
init_rwsem(&p->sem);
p->active_counters = p->counters;
return 0;
}
static inline bool percpu_sem_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
unsigned int __percpu *counters = ACCESS_ONCE(p->active_counters);
if (counters) {
this_cpu_inc(*counters);
return true;
}
down_read(&p->sem);
return false;
}
static inline void percpu_sem_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p, bool
fastpath)
{
if (fastpath)
this_cpu_dec(*p->counters);
else
up_read(&p->sem);
}
static inline unsigned int percpu_count(unsigned int *counters)
{
unsigned int total = 0;
int cpu;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
total += *per_cpu_ptr(counters, cpu);
return total;
}
static inline void percpu_sem_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
down_write(&p->sem);
p->active_counters = NULL;
while (percpu_count(p->counters))
schedule();
}
static inline void percpu_sem_up_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
p->active_counters = p->counters;
up_write(&p->sem);
}
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