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Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:13:40 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] padata: unbind parallel jobs from specific CPUs
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:52:23PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
>
> @@ -191,22 +184,25 @@ static struct padata_priv *padata_get_next(struct parallel_data *pd)
>  		padata = list_entry(reorder->list.next,
>  				    struct padata_priv, list);
>  
> -		list_del_init(&padata->list);
> -		atomic_dec(&pd->reorder_objects);
> +		/*
> +		 * The check fails in the unlikely event that two or more
> +		 * parallel jobs have hashed to the same CPU and one of the
> +		 * later ones finishes first.
> +		 */
> +		if (padata->seq_nr == pd->processed) {
> +			list_del_init(&padata->list);
> +			atomic_dec(&pd->reorder_objects);

Now that you've changed the test for whether there is work to be
done you also need to update the code at the end of padata_reorder
that checks whether there is work to do.  Otherwise we can end up
in a busy loop that just wastes CPU cycles.

Cheers,
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