Re: [PATCH 07/11] blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:32:05PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:11:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > With the previous change to guarantee bypass visiblity for RCU read
> > lock regions, entering bypass mode involves non-trivial overhead and
> > future changes are scheduled to make use of bypass mode during init
> > path.  Combined it may end up adding noticeable delay during boot.
> > 
> > This patch makes request_queue start its life in bypass mode, which is
> > ended on queue init completion at the end of
> > blk_init_allocated_queue(), and updates blk_queue_bypass_start() such
> > that draining and RCU synchronization are performed only when the
> > queue actually enters bypass mode.
> > 
> > This avoids unnecessarily switching in and out of bypass mode during
> > init avoiding the overhead and any nasty surprises which may step from
> > leaving bypass mode on half-initialized queues.
> 
> Tejun, I am not sure that this will fix the problem completely. I think
> we will still face the overhead of synchronize_rcu() in
> blkcg_deactivate_policy() as it will be called from cfq_exit_queue() for
> initialized queues.
> 
> In the past I had I had used synchronize_rcu() in cfq_exit_queue() and
> noticed the overhead. Looks like driver was creating fully initialized
> queues and tearing these apart soon.

blk_cleanup_queue() doesn't use blk_queue_bypass_start() to enter
bypass mode.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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