Re: [PATCH 0/4] exit: Make unlikely case in mm_update_next_owner() more scalable

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 01-06-18 10:25:59, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Fri 01-06-18 09:32:42, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > [...]
> >> > Group leader exiting early without tearing down the whole thread
> >> > group should be quite rare as well. No question that somebody might do
> >> > that on purpose though...
> >> 
> >> The group leader exiting early is a completely legitimate and reasonable
> >> thing to do, even if it is rare.
> >
> > I am not saying it isn't legitimate. But the most common case is the
> > main thread waiting for its threads or calling exit which would tear the
> > whole group down. Is there any easy way to achieve this other than tkill
> > to group leader? Calling exit(3) from the leader performs group exit
> > IIRC.
> 
> pthread_exit from the group leader.

Right, forgot to mention this one but this would be quite exotic, right?


> > I am not arguing this is non-issue. And it certainly is a problem once
> > somebody wants to be nasty... I was more interested how often this
> > really happens for sane workloads.
> 
> That is a fair question.  All I know for certain is that whatever Kirill
> Tkhai's workload was it was triggering this the slow path.

Yeah, that was exactly why I've asked that originally. It must be
something pretty special ;)
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs