Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jun 01 2022 - 17:26:41 EST
On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> @@ -59,6 +59,57 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *blkcg_punt_bio_wq;
>
> #define BLKG_DESTROY_BATCH_SIZE 64
>
> +/*
> + * lnode.next of the last entry in a lockless list is NULL. To make it
> + * always non-NULL for lnode's, a sentinel node has to be put at the
> + * end of the lockless list. So all the percpu lhead's are initialized
> + * to point to that sentinel node.
> + */
Can you please add why we want all entries to have non-NULL next?
> +static inline bool blkcg_llist_empty(struct llist_head *lhead)
> +{
> + return lhead->first == &llist_last;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void init_blkcg_llists(struct blkcg *blkcg)
> +{
> + int cpu;
> +
> + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> + per_cpu_ptr(blkcg->lhead, cpu)->first = &llist_last;
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct llist_node *
> +fetch_delete_blkcg_llist(struct llist_head *lhead)
> +{
> + return xchg(&lhead->first, &llist_last);
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct llist_node *
> +fetch_delete_lnode_next(struct llist_node *lnode)
> +{
> + struct llist_node *next = READ_ONCE(lnode->next);
> + struct blkcg_gq *blkg = llist_entry(lnode, struct blkg_iostat_set,
> + lnode)->blkg;
> +
> + WRITE_ONCE(lnode->next, NULL);
> + percpu_ref_put(&blkg->refcnt);
> + return next;
> +}
It's not a strong opinion but I'm not too fond of using inlines to mark
trivial functions. The compiler should be able to make these decisions,
right?
Other than the above two bikesheddings,
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.
--
tejun