Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:45:42 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] CLONE_NEWIPC and exit_group()
Message-ID: <20120626174542.GA15482@otc-wbsnb-06>
References: <20120626120425.GA10275@otc-wbsnb-06>
 <20120626170457.GA31175@mail.hallyn.com>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:04:57PM +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Kirill A. Shutemov (kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com):
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Patch to move kern_unmount() out of exit_group() code path is below.
> > Dmitry, could you check if it's beneficial for your use-case?
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> sorry, I don't seem to have the thread handy for contest.  What is the
> point of this?  The work being moved was not being done under lock,
> so what is this meant to gain?

It's basically addition to this patch (tested with the patch applied):

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/6347/focus=3D23929

Some context: Dmitry has workload which run a lot of short-living tasks in
sandboxed environment. He noticed that exit_group() syscall of the last
process in IPC namespace is a bottleneck.

The bottleneck was mainly due rcu_barrier() in kern_umount(). It's fixed
by patch in the link (Andrew took it in -mm).

But probably having kern_umount() in exit_group() code path is not a good
idea from scalability point of view?..

--=20
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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