Re: Severe performance regression w/ 4.4+ on Android due to cgroup locking changes

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:04:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I think it probably makes sense to make this the default on !RT at
> > least with a separate patch w/o stable cc'd.  While most use cases
> > will be fine with the latency on write path, it also means that the
> > reader side is blocked for the duration which can hurt.  rwsem implies
> > a lot more readers and thus more read lock operations than writes.
> > It's weird to trade off higher latency for lower cpu usage when it
> > would also slow down all readers.
> 
> NAK, no expedited muck by default. There's more than just RT that
> doesn't like IPI sprays.

Can you elaborate?  If that's the case, we have the wrong implemention
for percpu-rwsem where very long delays for writers induce the same
level of delays to all readers.  If expedited by default isn't
workable, we should move away from rcu_sync for percpu_rwsem.

Thanks.

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tejun