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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-05-13 16:35:17 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-05-26 20:35:00 -0400
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sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
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> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec60232..b9b824bf8f6b 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -938,6 +938,7 @@ config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
menuconfig CGROUPS
bool "Control Group support"
select KERNFS
+ select PERCPU_RWSEM
help
This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory