sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem

Note: This commit was originally committed as d59cfc09c3 but got
      reverted by 0c986253b9 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 <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
This commit is contained in:
Tejun Heo 2015-09-16 12:53:17 -04:00
parent 0c986253b9
commit 1ed1328792
5 changed files with 45 additions and 83 deletions

View file

@ -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;