Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] stop_machine: optimize stop_work_alloc()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:15:26AM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> wait_event()/wake_up_all() in stop_work_alloc/stop_work_free logic
> is very suboptimal because of non-exclusive wakeups. So we add the
> wait_queue_func_t alloc_wake() helper which wakes the waiter up only
> a) if it actually waits for a stop_work in the "freed" cpumask, and
> b) only after we already set ->stop_owner = waiter.
> 
> So if 2 stop_machine()'s race with each other, the loser will likely
> call schedule() only once and we will have a single wakeup.

So I think I can beat lockdep into submission (ugly but still) do we
want to use an actual per-cpu mutex instead?
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