Re: [PATCH 2/2] lib: cpu_rmap: CPU affinity reverse-mapping

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 16:17:14 EST


Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 Ã 19:39 +0000, Ben Hutchings a Ãcrit :
> When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want
> to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same
> or a nearby CPU. This requires a reverse-map of IRQ affinity. Add
> library functions to support a generic reverse-mapping from CPUs to
> objects with affinity and the specific case where the objects are
> IRQs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/cpu_rmap.h | 73 +++++++++++++
> lib/Kconfig | 4 +
> lib/Makefile | 2 +
> lib/cpu_rmap.c | 262 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 341 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/cpu_rmap.h
> create mode 100644 lib/cpu_rmap.c
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpu_rmap.h b/include/linux/cpu_rmap.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6e2f5ff
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/cpu_rmap.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
> +/*
> + * cpu_rmap.c: CPU affinity reverse-map support
> + * Copyright 2010 Solarflare Communications Inc.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
> + * by the Free Software Foundation, incorporated herein by reference.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/cpumask.h>
> +#include <linux/gfp.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> +
> +/**
> + * struct cpu_rmap - CPU affinity reverse-map
> + * @near: For each CPU, the index and distance to the nearest object,
> + * based on affinity masks
> + * @size: Number of objects to be reverse-mapped
> + * @used: Number of objects added
> + * @obj: Array of object pointers
> + */
> +struct cpu_rmap {
> + struct {
> + u16 index;
> + u16 dist;
> + } near[NR_CPUS];

This [NR_CPUS] is highly suspect.

Are you sure you cant use a per_cpu allocation here ?

> + u16 size, used;
> + void *obj[0];
> +};
> +#define CPU_RMAP_DIST_INF 0xffff
> +


> +
> +/**
> + * alloc_cpu_rmap - allocate CPU affinity reverse-map
> + * @size: Number of objects to be mapped
> + * @flags: Allocation flags e.g. %GFP_KERNEL
> + */

I really doubt you need other than GFP_KERNEL. (Especially if you switch
to per_cpu alloc ;) )

> +struct cpu_rmap *alloc_cpu_rmap(unsigned int size, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> + struct cpu_rmap *rmap;
> + unsigned int cpu;
> +
> + /* This is a silly number of objects, and we use u16 indices. */
> + if (size > 0xffff)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + rmap = kzalloc(sizeof(*rmap) + size * sizeof(rmap->obj[0]), flags);
> + if (!rmap)
> + return NULL;


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