Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector

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On 3/24/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:42:17AM -0800, Matt Helsley (matthltc@us.ibm.com)
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:11 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:35:50PM -0800, Matt Helsley
> (matthltc@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > I would argue preemption should be disabled around the if-block at the
> > > > very least. Suppose your rate limit is 10k calls/sec and you have 4
> > > > procs. Each proc has a sequence of three instructions:
> > > >
> > > > load fsevent_sum into register rx (rx <= 1000)
> > > > rx++ (rx <= 1001)
> > > > store contents of register rx in fsevent_sum (fsevent_sum <= 1001)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Now consider the following sequence of steps:
> > > >
> > > > load fsevent_sum into rx (rx <= 1000)
> > > > <preempted>
> > > > <3 other processors each manage to increment the sum by 3333 bringing
> us
> > > > to 9999>
> > > > <resumed>
> > > > rx++ (rx <= 1001)
> > > > store contents of rx in fsevent_sum (fsevent_sum <= 1001)
> > > >
> > > > So every processor now thinks it won't exceed the rate limit by
> > > > generating more events when in fact we've just exceeded the limit. So,
> > > > unless my example is flawed, I think you need to disable preemption
> > > > here.
> > >
> > > Doesn't it just exceed the limit by one event per cpu?
> >
> > The example exceeds it by one at the time of the final store. Thanks to
> > the fact that the value is then 1001 it may shortly be exceeded by much
> > more than 1.
>
> +
> +       if (jiffies - last <= fsevent_ratelimit) {
> +               if (fsevent_sum > fsevent_burst_limit)
> +                       return -2;
> +               fsevent_sum++;
>
> Only process (and not process' syscall) can preempt us here,
> so fsevent_sum can only exceed fsevent_burst_limit by one per process
> (process can not preempt itself, so when it has finished syscall which
> ends up in event generation, fsevent_sum will be increased).
>
> +       } else {
> +               last = jiffies;
> +               fsevent_sum = 0;
> +       }
>
> Actually, since jiffies and atomic operations are already used, I do not
> think addition of new atomic_inc_return or something similar will
> even somehow change the picture.
rate limit is just for some abnormal cases, for example, an
application leads to a unlimited event loop, it should be very few, in
the worst case, the user application which induced this case will
terminate, this should be a reasonable result.
rate limit is intent to prevent this kind of case and avoid DoS of system.
>
>
> > Cheers,
> > 	-Matt Helsley
>
> --
> 	Evgeniy Polyakov
>
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