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Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 19:10:54 +0800
From:   Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@...edance.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Dongdong Wang <wangdongdong.6@...edance.com>,
        Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>,
        Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] bpf: avoid grabbing spin_locks of
 all cpus when no free elems

在 2022/6/1 下午5:50, Alexei Starovoitov 写道:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 10:42 AM Feng zhou <zhoufeng.zf@...edance.com> wrote:
>>   static inline void ___pcpu_freelist_push(struct pcpu_freelist_head *head,
>> @@ -130,14 +134,19 @@ static struct pcpu_freelist_node *___pcpu_freelist_pop(struct pcpu_freelist *s)
>>          orig_cpu = cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>>          while (1) {
>>                  head = per_cpu_ptr(s->freelist, cpu);
>> +               if (READ_ONCE(head->is_empty))
>> +                       goto next_cpu;
>>                  raw_spin_lock(&head->lock);
>>                  node = head->first;
>>                  if (node) {
> extra bool is unnecessary.
> just READ_ONCE(head->first)

As for why to add is_empty instead of directly judging head->first, my
understanding is this, head->first is frequently modified during updating
map, which will lead to invalid other cpus's cache, and is_empty is after
freelist having no free elems will be changed, the performance will be 
better.
If I'm thinking wrong, please tell me why.