tree 3ebf35a0a034eb4f8a564d71c46ad7de1fdffcfa
parent 0ac801fe07374148714b5ef53df90ac5b1673c0c
author Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> 1358155406 +0800
committer Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 1358189082 -0800

cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from cgroup_attach_{task|proc}()

These 2 syncronize_rcu()s make attaching a task to a cgroup
quite slow, and it can't be ignored in some situations.

A real case from Colin Cross: Android uses cgroups heavily to
manage thread priorities, putting threads in a background group
with reduced cpu.shares when they are not visible to the user,
and in a foreground group when they are. Some RPCs from foreground
threads to background threads will temporarily move the background
thread into the foreground group for the duration of the RPC.
This results in many calls to cgroup_attach_task.

In cgroup_attach_task() it's task->cgroups that is protected by RCU,
and put_css_set() calls kfree_rcu() to free it.

If we remove this synchronize_rcu(), there can be threads in RCU-read
sections accessing their old cgroup via current->cgroups with
concurrent rmdir operation, but this is safe.

 # time for ((i=0; i<50; i++)) { echo $$ > /mnt/sub/tasks; echo $$ > /mnt/tasks; }

real    0m2.524s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.004s

With this patch:

real    0m0.004s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.000s

tj: These synchronize_rcu()s are utterly confused.  synchornize_rcu()
    necessarily has to come between two operations to guarantee that
    the changes made by the former operation are visible to all rcu
    readers before proceeding to the latter operation.  Here,
    synchornize_rcu() are at the end of attach operations with nothing
    beyond it.  Its only effect would be delaying completion of
    write(2) to sysfs tasks/procs files until all rcu readers see the
    change, which doesn't mean anything.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>