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

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 Ã 21:23 +0000, Ben Hutchings a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 22:17 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 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.
> [...]
> > > +/**
> > > + * 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 ?
> 
> I think that would be a waste of space in shared caches, as this is
> read-mostly.

This is slow path, unless I dont understood the intent.

Cache lines dont matter. I was not concerned about speed but memory
needs.

NR_CPUS can be 4096 on some distros, that means a 32Kbyte allocation.

Really, you'll have to have very strong arguments to introduce an
[NR_CPUS] array in the kernel today.



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