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Subject: Re: WARNING in __mmdrop
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:36:18PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> On 2019/7/26 下午8:53, Jason Wang wrote:
> > 
> > On 2019/7/26 下午8:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 08:00:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > On 2019/7/26 下午7:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > On 2019/7/25 下午9:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > > > > Exactly, and that's the reason actually I use
> > > > > > > > synchronize_rcu() there.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > So the concern is still the possible synchronize_expedited()?
> > > > > > > I think synchronize_srcu_expedited.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > synchronize_expedited sends lots of IPI and is bad for realtime VMs.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Can I do this
> > > > > > > > on through another series on top of the incoming V2?
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The question is this: is this still a gain if we switch to the
> > > > > > > more expensive srcu? If yes then we can keep the feature on,
> > > > > > I think we only care about the cost on srcu_read_lock()
> > > > > > which looks pretty
> > > > > > tiny form my point of view. Which is basically a
> > > > > > READ_ONCE() + WRITE_ONCE().
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Of course I can benchmark to see the difference.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > if not we'll put it off until next release and think
> > > > > > > of better solutions. rcu->srcu is just a find and replace,
> > > > > > > don't see why we need to defer that. can be a separate patch
> > > > > > > for sure, but we need to know how well it works.
> > > > > > I think I get here, let me try to do that in V2 and
> > > > > > let's see the numbers.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > 
> > > > It looks to me for tree rcu, its srcu_read_lock() have a mb()
> > > > which is too
> > > > expensive for us.
> > > I will try to ponder using vq lock in some way.
> > > Maybe with trylock somehow ...
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, let me retry if necessary (but I do remember I end up with deadlocks
> > last try).
> 
> 
> Ok, I play a little with this. And it works so far. Will do more testing
> tomorrow.
> 
> One reason could be I switch to use get_user_pages_fast() to
> __get_user_pages_fast() which doesn't need mmap_sem.
> 
> Thanks

OK that sounds good. If we also set a flag to make
vhost_exceeds_weight exit, then I think it will be all good.

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