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From: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleaving
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:35:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zbp26WZBkzhpLTLV@memverge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1c5g8qw.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 05:19:51PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 02:43:12PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> >> Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >  
> >> > +static unsigned int weighted_interleave_nodes(struct mempolicy *policy)
> >> > +{
> >> > +	unsigned int node = current->il_prev;
> >> > +
> >> > +	if (!current->il_weight || !node_isset(node, policy->nodes)) {
> >> > +		node = next_node_in(node, policy->nodes);
> >> > +		/* can only happen if nodemask is being rebound */
> >> > +		if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
> >> > +			return node;
> >> 
> >> I feel a little unsafe to read policy->nodes at same time of writing in
> >> rebound.  Is it better to use a seqlock to guarantee its consistency?
> >> It's unnecessary to be a part of this series though.
> >> 
> >
> > I think this is handled already? It is definitely an explicit race
> > condition that is documented elsewhere:
> >
> > /*
> >  * mpol_rebind_policy - Migrate a policy to a different set of nodes
> >  *
> >  * Per-vma policies are protected by mmap_lock. Allocations using per-task
> >  * policies are protected by task->mems_allowed_seq to prevent a premature
> >  * OOM/allocation failure due to parallel nodemask modification.
> >  */
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out!
> 
> If we use task->mems_allowed_seq reader side in
> weighted_interleave_nodes() we can guarantee the consistency of
> policy->nodes.  That may be not deserved, because it's not a big deal to
> allocate 1 page in a wrong node.
> 
> It makes more sense to do that in
> alloc_pages_bulk_array_weighted_interleave(), because a lot of pages may
> be allocated there.
>

That's probably worth just adding now, I'll do it and squash the style
updates into the branch.  Sorry Andrew, I guess 1 last version is
inbound :]

I'll pick up the reviewed tags along the way.

~Gregory

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-31 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-30 18:20 [PATCH v4 0/3] mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs extension Gregory Price
2024-01-30 18:20 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/mempolicy: implement the sysfs-based weighted_interleave interface Gregory Price
2024-01-30 18:20 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/mempolicy: refactor a read-once mechanism into a function for re-use Gregory Price
2024-01-30 18:20 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleaving Gregory Price
2024-01-31  5:12   ` Gregory Price
2024-01-31  6:43   ` Huang, Ying
2024-01-31  7:43     ` Gregory Price
2024-01-31  9:19       ` Huang, Ying
2024-01-31 16:35         ` Gregory Price [this message]
2024-01-31 17:29         ` Gregory Price
2024-02-01  1:55           ` Huang, Ying
2024-02-01  2:01             ` Gregory Price
2024-02-01  2:18             ` Gregory Price
2024-02-01  3:02               ` Huang, Ying
2024-02-01  3:10                 ` Gregory Price

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