Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 10:47:08 EST
On 06/18, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:50:57PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > This patch simply moves all per-cpu variables into the new single
> > per-cpu "struct bp_cpuinfo".
> >
> > To me this looks more logical and clean, but this can also simplify
> > the further potential changes. In particular, I do not think this
> > memory should be per-cpu, it is never used "locally". After this
> > change it is trivial to turn it into, say, bootmem[nr_cpu_ids].
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm ok with the patch because it's indeed more logical and clean to pack the info
> to a single struct.
Great,
> But I'm not sure why you think using per-cpu is a problem. It's not only
> deemed for optimized local uses,
But it is.
Simplest example,
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
total_count = per_cpu(per_cpu_count, cpu);
Every per_cpu() likely means the cache miss. Not to mention we need the
additional math to calculate the address of the local counter.
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
total_count = bootmem_or_kmalloc_array[cpu];
is much better in this respect.
And note also that per_cpu_count above can share the cacheline with
another "hot" per-cpu variable.
> it's also convenient for allocations and
> de-allocation, or static definitions.
Yes, this is advantage. But afaics the only one.
> I'm not sure why bootmem would make
> more sense.
Or kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids), I didn't really mean that alloc_bootmem() is
necessarily the best option.
> Other than this in the changelog, the patch is nice, thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks ;)
Oleg.
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