tree 6d34ecec4cfc29c6032a7b6ce1acbb61088d1787
parent 575969a0dd3fe65c6556bcb8f87c42303326ea55
author Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> 1305833910 -0400
committer Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> 1305916493 +0200

blk-cgroup: Make cgroup stat reset path blkg->lock free for dispatch stats

Now dispatch stats update is lock free. But reset of these stats still
takes blkg->stats_lock and is dependent on that. As stats are per cpu,
we should be able to just reset the stats on each cpu without any locks.
(Atleast for 64bit arch).

On 32bit arch there is a small race where 64bit updates are not atomic.
The result of this race can be that in the presence of other writers,
one might not get 0 value after reset of a stat and might see something
intermediate

One can write more complicated code to cover this race like sending IPI
to other cpus to reset stats and for offline cpus, reset these directly.

Right not I am not taking that path because reset_update is more of a
debug feature and it can happen only on 32bit arch and possibility of
it happening is small. Will fix it if it becomes a real problem. For
the time being going for code simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>