From 1ed1328792ff46e4bb86a3d7f7be2971f4549f6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:53:17 -0400 Subject: sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem Note: This commit was originally committed as d59cfc09c32a but got reverted by 0c986253b939 due to the performance regression from the percpu_rwsem write down/up operations added to cgroup task migration path. percpu_rwsem changes which alleviate the performance issue are pending for v4.4-rc1 merge window. Re-apply. The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem to synchronize against threadgroup changes. This per-process rwsem adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across multiple processes. This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader side and contained in cgroups proper. This patch converts one-to-one. This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however, cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take enough time for the lower granularity to matter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/init_task.h | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h') diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index e38681f4912d..d0b380ee7d67 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ extern struct files_struct init_files; extern struct fs_struct init_fs; -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS -#define INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig) \ - .group_rwsem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(sig.group_rwsem), -#else -#define INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig) -#endif - #ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS #define INIT_CPUSET_SEQ(tsk) \ .mems_allowed_seq = SEQCNT_ZERO(tsk.mems_allowed_seq), @@ -64,7 +57,6 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs; INIT_PREV_CPUTIME(sig) \ .cred_guard_mutex = \ __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(sig.cred_guard_mutex), \ - INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig) \ } extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy; -- cgit v1.2.3