Re: [workqueue/driver-core PATCH v2 2/5] async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 06:47:48 EST


On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 04:08:21PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch introduces four new variants of the async_schedule_ functions
> that allow scheduling on a specific NUMA node.
>
> The first two functions are async_schedule_near and
> async_schedule_near_domain which end up mapping to async_schedule and
> async_schedule_domain but provide NUMA node specific functionality. They
> replace the original functions which were moved to inline function
> definitions that call the new functions while passing NUMA_NO_NODE.
>
> The second two functions are async_schedule_dev and
> async_schedule_dev_domain which provide NUMA specific functionality when
> passing a device as the data member and that device has a NUMA node other
> than NUMA_NO_NODE.
>
> The main motivation behind this is to address the need to be able to
> schedule device specific init work on specific NUMA nodes in order to
> improve performance of memory initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v1->v2:
> Replaced call to queue_work_near with call to queue_work_node
>
> include/linux/async.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> kernel/async.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/async.h b/include/linux/async.h
> index 6b0226bdaadc..1f6cb0d50263 100644
> --- a/include/linux/async.h
> +++ b/include/linux/async.h
> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/numa.h>
> +#include <linux/device.h>
>
> typedef u64 async_cookie_t;
> typedef void (*async_func_t) (void *data, async_cookie_t cookie);
> @@ -37,9 +39,37 @@ struct async_domain {
> struct async_domain _name = { .pending = LIST_HEAD_INIT(_name.pending), \
> .registered = 0 }
>
> -extern async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_t func, void *data);
> -extern async_cookie_t async_schedule_domain(async_func_t func, void *data,
> - struct async_domain *domain);
> +async_cookie_t async_schedule_near(async_func_t func, void *data,
> + int node);
> +async_cookie_t async_schedule_near_domain(async_func_t func, void *data,
> + int node,
> + struct async_domain *domain);
> +
> +static inline async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_t func, void *data)
> +{
> + return async_schedule_near(func, data, NUMA_NO_NODE);
> +}
> +
> +static inline async_cookie_t
> +async_schedule_domain(async_func_t func, void *data,
> + struct async_domain *domain)
> +{
> + return async_schedule_near_domain(func, data, NUMA_NO_NODE, domain);
> +}
> +
> +static inline async_cookie_t
> +async_schedule_dev(async_func_t func, struct device *dev)
> +{
> + return async_schedule_near(func, dev, dev_to_node(dev));
> +}
> +
> +static inline async_cookie_t
> +async_schedule_dev_domain(async_func_t func, struct device *dev,
> + struct async_domain *domain)
> +{
> + return async_schedule_near_domain(func, dev, dev_to_node(dev), domain);
> +}

No kerneldoc for these functions? We lost it for
async_schedule_domain() which used to be documented before this patch :(

thanks,

greg k-h