Re: [patch 1/2]percpu_ida: fix a live lock

[Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:29:42PM +0100, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > We'll defintively need a fix to be able to allow the whole tag space.
> > For large numbers of tags per device the flush might work, but for
> > devices with low number of tags we need something more efficient.  The
> > case of less tags than CPUs isn't that unusual either and we probably
> > want to switch to an allocator without per cpu allocations for them to
> > avoid all this.  E.g. for many ATA devices we just have a single tag,
> > and many scsi drivers also only want single digit outstanding commands
> > per LUN.
> 
> Do we really always need the pool for these classes of devices?
> 
> Pulling tags from local caches to the pool just to (near to) dry it at
> the very next iteration does not seem beneficial. Not to mention caches
> vs pool locking complexities.

And I meant here we do not scrap per cpu allocations.

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Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agordeev@redhat.com