Re: [Patch V3 5/9] i40e: Use numa_mem_id() to better support memoryless node

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Jiang Liu wrote:

> Function i40e_clean_rx_irq() tries to reuse memory pages allocated

s/i40e_clean_rx_irq/i40e_clean_rx_irq_ps/

> from the nearest node. To better support memoryless node, use
> numa_mem_id() instead of numa_node_id() to get the nearest node with
> memory.
> 

Out of curiosity, what prevents the cpu to be preempted and current_node 
to no longer match numa_mem_id()?

> This change should only affect performance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> index 9a4f2bc70cd2..a8f618cb8eb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> @@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@ static int i40e_clean_rx_irq_ps(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, int budget)
>  	unsigned int total_rx_bytes = 0, total_rx_packets = 0;
>  	u16 rx_packet_len, rx_header_len, rx_sph, rx_hbo;
>  	u16 cleaned_count = I40E_DESC_UNUSED(rx_ring);
> -	const int current_node = numa_node_id();
> +	const int current_node = numa_mem_id();
>  	struct i40e_vsi *vsi = rx_ring->vsi;
>  	u16 i = rx_ring->next_to_clean;
>  	union i40e_rx_desc *rx_desc;
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