On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:36:19PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Paul E. McKenney >> <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:09:48AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: >> >> When the gp_kthread wakes up from the wait event, it returns 0 if the >> >> wake up is >> >> due to the condition having been met. This commit checks this return value >> >> for a spurious wake up before calling rcu_gp_init(). >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.pr...@gmail.com> >> > >> > How does this added check help? I don't see that it does. If the flag >> > is set, we want to wake up. If we get a spurious wakeup, but then the >> > flag gets set before we actually wake up, we still want to wake up. >> >> So I took a look at the docs again, and using the return value is the >> recommended way to check for spurious wakeups. >> >> The condition in wait_event_interruptible() is checked when the task >> is woken up (either due to stray signals or explicitly) and it returns >> true if condition evaluates to true.
this should be returns '0' if the condition evaluates to true. >> >> In the current scenario, if we get a spurious wakeup, we take the >> costly path of checking this condition again (with a barrier and lock) >> before going back to wait. >> >> The scenario of getting an actual wakeup after getting a spurious >> wakeup exists even today, this is the window after detecting a >> spurious wakeup and before going back to wait. I am not sure if using >> the return value enlarges that window as we are going back to sleep >> immediately. >> >> Thoughts? > > If the flag is set, why should we care whether or not the wakeup was > spurious? If the flag is not set, why should we care whether or not > wait_event_interruptible() thought that the wakeup was not spurious? > A correction about the return value above: return will be 0 if the condition is true, in this case if the flag is set. If the flag is set, ret will be 0 and we will go ahead with rcu_gp_init(). (no change wrt current behavior) If the flag is not set, currently we go ahead and call rcu_gp_init() from where we check if the flag is set (after a lock+barrier) and return. If we care about what wait_event_interruptible() returns, we can go back and wait for an actual wakeup much earlier without the additional overhead of calling rcu_gp_init(). -- Pranith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/